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EPIGENESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("epigenesis" is a kind of...):
metamorphism (change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances)