Metamorphic Rocks

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What metamorphic rock generally cantains the smallest crystals?

-- Shannon Davis (september_29_81@yahoo.com), March 27, 2001

Answers

Slates are the lowest grade of folited rocks. They are so fine grained that their individual minerals cannot be seen easily without a microscope. (Siever, Raymond page 176)

-- DonnaMarie Bollmann (donnabollmann@hotmail.com), March 28, 2001.

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