prograde

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WOTD – 3 November 2015

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Retrograde and prograde motion and Prograde metamorphism

prograde (comparative more prograde, superlative most prograde)

(astronomy) Moving in a forward direction, especially with respect to other bodies in the same system.
(geology) Being a metamorphic change resulting from a higher pressure or temperature.

(astronomy) moving in a forward direction

(geology) being a metamorphic change

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(geology) Of sediment, to build out seawards in conditions of marine regression.
- 1992, R.H Workum & A.S. Hedinger, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2509, page 41:
  In some localities the bank margins of several cycles are stacked above each other, in other places they backstep or prograde relative to each other.