When a rock is buried to increasing depth it is subject to increasingly greater temperature and pressure and will undergo ________.

A. hydrothermal metamorphism
B. shock metamorphism
C. prograde metamorphism
D. contact metamorphism
E. retrograde metamorphism


Answer: C

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