Regional metamorphism tends to make the rock more indurated and at the same time to give it a foliated, shistose or gneissic texture, consisting of a planar arrangement of the minerals, so that platy or prismatic minerals like mica and hornblende have their longest axes arranged parallel to one another.

Regional or Barrovian metamorphism covers large areas of continental crust typically associated with mountain ranges, particularly subduction zones or the roots of previously eroded mountains.

Regional metamorphism can be described and classified into metamorphic facies or metamorphic zones of temperature / pressure conditions throughout the orogenic terrane.

Regional metamorphism refers to the effects on large masses of rocks over a wide area, typically associated with mountain building events within orogenic belts.

Regional metamorphism is believed to have deformed this area at approximately 1. 4 Ga and metamorphic thrusting at approximately 1. 16 to 1. 12 Ga.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

Trains: the city is serviced by Alfa Pendular ( Lisbon <-> Braga ; Lisbon <-> Oporto ; Faro <-> Oporto ) and Intercity ( Intercidades: Lisbon <-> Oporto and Lisbon <-> Guimarães ) trains, Regional trains, Suburban Trains ( Urbanos do Porto ) and also the Linha do Vouga, a narrow gauge railway to Águeda and Sernada do Vouga.

It also refers to Bornholm Regional Municipality, the municipality () which covers the entire island.

Regional treaties include the Andean Pact, now known as the Andean Community, which also includes Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, the bodies and institutions making up the Andean Integration System ( AIS ).

Capoeira Regional also introduced the first ranking method in Capoeira.

Chinese dishes may be categorized as one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of China, also called the " Eight Regional Cuisines " and the " Eight Cuisines of China ".

The city is also served by Delta Air Lines at Columbia Regional Airport, the only commercial airport in mid-Missouri.

Regional transportation networks have also changed significantly in recent decades with port modernizations, with new expressways and ongoing arterial highway construction, the abandonment of various low-capacity railway branchlines ( including the entire railway system of Prince Edward Island and southwestern Nova Scotia ), and the construction of the Canso Causeway and the Confederation Bridge.

There are also the planned European Union Galileo positioning system, Chinese Compass navigation system, and Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System.

The group also includes domestic subsidiaries Lufthansa Cityline and Eurowings that operate as Lufthansa Regional as well as independently operating low-cost subsidiary Germanwings.

Grenada also is a member of the Eastern Caribbean's Regional Security System ( RSS ).

Regional specialties, such as the Münchner Weißwurst ( Munich white sausage ) popular in Bavaria or the Currywurst ( depending on region, either a steamed pork sausage or a version of the Bratwurst, sliced and spiced with curry ketchup ) popular in the metropolitan areas of Berlin, Hamburg and the Ruhr Area, can also be found from all regions of the country.

In addition Harwich is also the site of Cape Cod Regional Technical High School a 9 – 12 high school which serves most of Cape Cod.

The town is also home to Holy Trinity Regional School, a Catholic school which serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grades in West Harwich.

Regional airlines such as Turkish Airlines, Gulf Air, Indian Airlines, Pakistan International Airlines ( PIA ), Iranian Airlines, and others also make frequent stops at Kabul International Airport.

Regional offices are also located in New York City, Los Angeles, Bentonville, Arkansas, and international offices in Mexico City and Toronto.

File: Kellerbeach1. jpg | People also swim recreationally, at Kellar Beach in Richmond's Miller / Knox Regional Shoreline.

Regional parties, mainly the Basque Nationalist Party ( EAJ-PNV ) from the Basque Country, and Convergence and Union ( CiU ) and the Socialists ' Party of Catalonia ( PSC ) from Catalonia, have also played key roles in Spanish politics.

Uzbekistan is also a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ( SCO ) and hosts the SCO ’ s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure ( RATS ) in Tashkent.

Greater Victoria also has an expanding system designed to facilitate bicycles and electrically assisted bicycles via bike lanes on many main roads as well as the Galloping Goose Regional Trail and Lochside Regional Trail.

The United Nations Regional Groups also operate at the OPCW to govern the rotations on the Executive Council and provide informal discussion platform.

The President of the Region, colloquially nicknamed Governor or even Doge in remembrance of Venice's glorious tradition, is also the head of the Regional Government.

Many Donegal students also attend the Limavady Campus of the North West Regional College ( popularly known as Limavady Tech ) and the Omagh Campus of South West College ( popularly known as Omagh Tech or Omagh College ).

Regional military governors, known as Jiedushi, gained increasingly autonomous status while formerly submissive states raided the empire.

The area formerly known as " County Dublin " is now defined in legislation solely as the " Dublin Region " under the Local Government Act, 1991 ( Regional Authorities ) ( Establishment ) Order, 1993, and this is the terminology officially used by the four Dublin administrative councils in press releases concerning the former county area.

In August 2003, an international peacekeeping force, known as the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands ( RAMSI ) and Operation Helpem Fren, entered the islands.

Regional government functions under a system known as " the State of Autonomies ", a highly decentralized system of territorial administration based on asymmetrical devolution to the " nationalities and regions " that constitute the nation, and in which the nation, via the central government, retains full sovereignty.

Cape Breton University ( CBU ), formerly known as the " University College of Cape Breton " ( UCCB ), is a Canadian university in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

; popularly known locally as ' the Regional '), established in the 1970s in Letterkenny.

The concept was introduced in the 1970s by the Natal Town and Regional Planning Commission of the Province of Natal ( now known as KwaZulu-Natal ) in the regional guide plans for Durban and Pietermaritzburg.

During the years just prior to the decennial census, parallel census offices, known as " Regional Census Centers " are opened in the field office cities.

Montgomery Regional Airport, also known as Dannelly Field, is the major airport serving Montgomery.

* The Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, located outside of Liberty, Texas has the largest known collection of photographs and illustrations of Houston.

* Carib Beer Cup, a first class cricket competition in the West Indies now known as Regional Four Day Competition

The towns of Berkshire County have formed such a regional compact known as the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission.

* Arnold Palmer Regional Airport ( formerly known as Westmoreland County Airport )

The Fulton Opera House, also known as the Fulton Theatre or simply The Fulton, is a League of Regional Theatres class C regional theater located in historic downtown Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Whatcom County also has land borders with two administrative units of British Columbia, Canada, which together comprise the region known as the Lower Mainland, and also a water border with the Gulf Islands, which form Electoral Area G of the Capital Regional District.

Riverside Hospital also known as Riverside Regional Medical Center ( a Regional Referral Hospital ), began serving the Virginia Peninsula community in 1916.

Officially known as Fairview Lawn Cemetery, the non-denominational cemetery is run by the Parks Department of the Halifax Regional Municipality.

The Regional Bell Operating Companies ( RBOC ) are the result of United States v. AT & T, the U. S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( later known as AT & T Corp .).

Effective January 1, 1984, AT & T Corp .' s local operations were split into seven independent Regional Bell Operating Companies known as " Baby Bells ".

RBOCs were originally known as Regional Holding Companies ( RHCs ).