Many people with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome have soft, velvety skin that is highly stretchy (elastic) and fragile. Affected individuals tend to bruise easily, and some types of the condition also cause abnormal scarring.
Quartzite is a metamorphic rock that is formed from the sedimentary rock sandstone. Slate is a metamorphic rock that is formed from the sedimentary rock mudstone. Granulite is a metamorphic rock that is formed from the igneous rock basalt.
The original rock from which a metamorphic rock formed. A metamorphic rock composed of quartz and transformed from a protolith of quartz sandstone. Metamorphism of a broad region, usually the result of deep burial during an orogeny.A medium-to coarse-grained metamorphic rock that possesses foliation caused by the preferred orientation of large mica flakes. mineral formed by solid-state transitions under metamorphic conditions. Rock that forms when preexisting rock changes into new rock as a result of an increase in pressure and temperature and/or shearing under elevated temperatures; metamorphism occurs without the rock first becoming a melt or a sediment.