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List of rock textures
This
page
is
intended
to be
a list
of
rock
textural
and
morphological
terms.
A
Adcumulate
Agglomeritic
Adamantine
a type
of
lustre
Amygdaloidal
Anhedral
Antitaxial
veins
Aphanitic
Aplitic
;
aplite
Augen textured gneiss
Axiolitic
texture
B
Botryoidal
brecciated
Bedding fissile
; bedding fissility
Boudinage
;
boudins
C
Cataclastic
Chilled margin
Clastic
;
see also
breccia
Cleaved
Crenulated
Cross-bedding
Cross-stratification
; also trough-cross stratification.
Cumulate
;
see
also
layered intrusion
D
Decussate
Devitirification; devitrified
Dendritic texture
; dendrites
Diatextite
; see also
schlieren
and
migmatite
E
Embayed
minerals
; see
igneous texture
Equigranular
Euhedral
Eutaxitic
Epiclastic
F
Fiamme
Foliation
Fissile
; see also
Bedding fissility
.
Fossiliferous
G
Glomeroporphyritic
Gneissose;
gneissic
Granoblastic
Granophyric
Granulitic
Graphic
H
Holocrystalline
Hyaline texture
Hyalopilitic
I
Imbricate
J
Jointed
K
Kelyphitic
L
Lepidoblastic
Leucocratic
Lineation
, lineated
L-tectonite
M
Melanocratic
Mesocratic
Mesocumulate
Mylonitic
N
Nematoblastic
O
Ocelli
Oolitic
; see also
limestone
Ophitic texture
Orbicular
texture
Orthocumulate
P
Panidiomorphic
Pegmatitic
Peloidal
Perthitic
Phaneritic
Phyllitic
Pisolitic
Poikilitic
Porphyroclastic
Porphyroblastic
Porphyritic texture
; see also
porphyry
Ptygmatic
; see migmatite
Q
Quench
textures
; see
obsidian
,
tachylyte
or
aphanitic
R
Rapakivi texture
S
Sandy
Schistose
; schistosity
Seriate texture
Shear
; sheared; shear
fabric
Slaty
;
slaty cleavage
Specular
Spherulite
Spinifex texture
; see also
komatiite
S-tectonite
Stratabound
Stratum
Stromatolitic
Stylolitic
Subhedral
Symplectite
T
Tuffaceous
Trachytic texture
U
V
Vesicular texture
Variolitic
Vitreous
Vuggy
W - Z