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Hornfels

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Hornfels is a tough, fine-grained rock that is made by contact metamorphism where magma bakes surrounding rocks. Note how it breaks across the original bedding.

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The main contact-metamorphic rockPhoto courtesy Fed on Wikimedia Commons

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