parent rock
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Some hydrothermal alterations remove elements from the parent rock rather than deposit them.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
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
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
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
It contains no substances which have not been derived from the weathering of the parent rock.
From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon
