parent rock
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Instead, directed stress modifies the parent rock at a mechanical level, changing the arrangement, size, and/or shape of the mineral crystals.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
These space rocks came from the same parent rock and provided evidence for the first asteroid from the collision.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2016
Dr. Schmitz and his team concluded that the new space rock, which they named Öst 65, came from the asteroid that smashed into the same L-chondrite parent rock that littered the ancient seafloor with debris.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2016
As already noted, the nature of the parent rock controls the types of metamorphic rocks that can form from it under differing metamorphic conditions.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
From these vast quantities we know that the parent rock denuded during geological time amounted to some 300 million cubic kilometres or about seventy million cubic miles.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by Joly, John
