Excerpt from Etudes Et Experiences Synthetiques sur le Metamorphisme Et sur la Formation des Roches Cristallines C'est cette etude du phenomene, tel qu Il nous est pos sible de le comprendre aujourd'hui, que je presente dans ce travail. Je le diviserai en trois parties: la premiere sera consacree a l'historique; la deuxieme, a l'exposition des faits que l'on peut considerer comme acquis, et auxquels devront satisfaire les explications theoriques qui forment le sujet de la troisieme partie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.