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Migmatite

earth science Maturity 7-9

Some rocks are made of two parts.

Migmatite 2005.jpg
Migmatite 2005.jpg
One part is old and hard. The other part is new and soft. Deep in the Earth, it gets very hot. This makes the rock melt a little bit. It looks like wavy stripes.
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Ptigmatite.jpg
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Big glacially polished cliff on Baffin Island.jpg
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Teelin ptygmatic migmatites.jpg
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Holmquist & Sederholm interpretations of...
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