In what environment does high pressure-low temperature metamorphism occur?

a) near magma but at shallow levels
b) near magma but at deep levels
c) under normal conditions of burial and heating
d) in a subduction zone or accretionary prism
e) none of the above


Ans: d) in a subduction zone or accretionary prism

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