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By Andrew Alden, About.com Guide to Geology since 1997

More Metamorphics

Friday July 7, 2006
chrysotileCome see the additional pictures in the Metamorphic Rock Gallery. These are the distinctive rocks that result from heat and pressure on igneous rock types, and they're not as common or well known—except where I live, in the Franciscan Complex of coastal California.

Chrysotile vein — Geology Guide photo

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