metamorphism, diagenesis and

chemical weathering?

• metamorphism – entails high temperature

and high pressure
• diagenesis – entails a bonding and
hardening of a sediment relatively near the
earths surface
• weathering – entails the disruption and
alteration of a solid rock at or near the earth
surface
FOLIASI
FOLIASI
Contact Metamorphism
Augen gneiss
Greenschist - Actinolite Schist
Serpentine with Vein
Chrysotile
Rock
Slate
Mica Schist
Amphibolite facies garnet-mica
schist
Garnet Gneiss
Augen gneiss
Augen gneiss
granulit
A dike (pink) has cut across
banded gneiss
Garnet porfiroblas
Migmatite texture
Eklogit (swiss)
Eclogites consist garnet and Na-
rich clinopyroxene (omphacite)
eclogite folds, Nordfjord, Norway
Corundum and high Al-Amph in
calcite marble
blue mineral is glaucophane
Glaukofan Jadeit
Retrogressed eclogite

Large
garnets are
rimmed by
amphibole,
whereas the
matrix
consists of
clinopyroxe
ne,
amphibol
 Granulite

Garnets display textural zoning with a light core (due to abundant

quartz inclusions) surrounded by a distinctly darker rim