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Examples of anthropogenic pyrometamorphism are numerous and often closely analogous to natural pyrometamorphic processes and products. In this chapter, products and conditions of anthropogenic and biomass pyrometamorphism are described and include: bricks and ceramics derived from a variety of compositions; fused rocks associated with burning spoil heaps, in situ gasification; slags produced from non-metallic blast furnaces, iron ore smelting, surface burning, drilling and artificial fulgurites.

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Grapes, R. (2010). Anthropogenic and Biomass Pyrometamorphism. In: Pyrometamorphism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15588-8_6

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