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Metamorphism vs Katamorphism - What's the difference?

metamorphism | katamorphism |

In geology terms the difference between metamorphism and katamorphism

is that metamorphism is the process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure while katamorphism is any form of metamorphism that occurs near the Earth's surface.

metamorphism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
  • *2004 , Richard Fortey, The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 100:
  • *:burial means that the ambient pressure on the rock increases – as does the temperature. This encourages metamorphism .
  • (zoology) The process by which insects development through life stages -- as, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.

    • See also

    * metamorphic * metamorphosis

    katamorphism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) Any form of metamorphism that occurs near the Earth's surface