Important Parameters
Several generally unrecognized but important controlling parameters of metamorphism have been suggested.
- The absence or presence of water in the system, because hydrocarbon-thermal destruction is significantly suppressed in the presence of water.
- Increasing fluid pressure strongly suppresses all organic-matter metamorphism.
- Product escape from reaction sites, as lack of product escape retards metamorphism.
- Increasing temperature as the principal driver of reactions.
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