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Metamorphic rocks exposed at the earth’s surface are metastable, with respect to P-T-X conditions in the atmosphere. This is because of the extremely slow rate of reaction between the rocks and the atmosphere, and between the minerals of the rocks themselves, under these low-temperature conditions. If this were not so, the rocks would contain only low P-T assemblages, and we would have no evidence of metamorphism ever having occurred at depth.
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Vernon, R.H. (1976). Kinetics of Metamorphic Reactions. In: Metamorphic Processes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-1109-4_3
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