Growth of New Minerals

• New minerals may grow during metamorphism

• CaCO3 + SiO2 = CaSiO3 + CO2

• The presence of wollastonite can be used as an indicator of the Degree of Metamorphism

• ISOGRAD - a line on a map connecting points of equal degree of metamorphism

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