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Excerpt from Manual of the Chemical Analysis of Rocks
While our knowledge of metamorphic rocks is, as yet, not SO far advanced as that of the igneous ones, their chemical com position plays, likewise, a most important part in their study and classification, and, to a certain extent, the same is true of the sedimentary rocks.
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