List of rock textures

 ( Mineralogy ) 

This page is intended to be a list of rock textural and morphological terms.

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A

• Cumulate rocks
• agglomerate
• Adamantine a type of lustre
• Amygdule
• Anhedral
• Antitaxial veins
• Aphanitic
• Aplite; aplite
• Augen
• Axiolitic texture

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B

• Botryoidal
• Bedding fissile; bedding fissility
• Boudinage; Boudinage

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C

• Cataclastic rock
• Chilled margin
• Clastic; see also breccia
• Cleaved
• crenulation
• Cross-bedding
• Cross-stratification; also trough-cross stratification.
• Cumulate rock; see also layered intrusion

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D

• Decussate
• Devitirification; devitrified
• Dendritic texture; dendrites
• Diatextite; see also schlieren and migmatite

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E

• Embayed minerals; see igneous texture
• Equigranular
• Euhedral
• Eutaxitic
• Epiclastic

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F

• Fiamme
• Foliation
• Fissile; see also Bedding fissility.

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G

• Glomeroporphyritic
• ; gneissic
• Granoblastic
• Granophyre
• Granulite
• Graphic texture

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H

• Holocrystalline
• Hyaline
• Hyalopilitic

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I

• Imbricate
• Intergrowth texture

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J

• Jointed

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K

• Kelyphitic

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L

• Lepidoblastic
• Leucocratic
• Lineation, lineated
• Tectonite

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M

• Melanocratic
• Mesocratic
• Cumulate rocks
• mylonite

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N

• Nematoblastic

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O

• Ocelli
• Oolite; see also limestone
• Ophitic texture
• Orbicular texture
• Cumulate rocks

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P

• Panidiomorphic
• Pegmatitic
• Peloidal
• Perthite
• Phaneritic
• Phyllite
• Pisolite
• Poikilitic
• Porphyritic; see also porphyry
• Ptygmatic (folding); see migmatite

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Q

• Quench textures; see obsidian, tachylyte or aphanitic

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R

• Rapakivi texture

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S

• Schistose; schistosity
• Seriate texture
• Shear; sheared; shear fabric
• slate; cleavage texture
• Specular
• Spherulite
• Spinifex texture; see also komatiite
• Tectonite
• Stratabound
• Stratum
• stromatolite
• Stylolite
• Euhedral
• Symplectite

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T

• Trachytic texture

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U

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V

• Vesicular texture
• Variolite
• Vitreous lustre

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W - Z

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See also

• Crystallography
• Fracture (geology)
• Fracture (mineralogy)
• List of minerals
• List of rock types
• Rock microstructure

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