List of rock textures
This page is intended to be a list of rock textural and morphological terms.
A
[edit]- Adcumulate
- Agglomeritic
- Adamantine a type of lustre
- Amygdaloidal
- Anhedral
- Antitaxial veins
- Aphanitic
- Aplitic; aplite
- Augen textured gneiss
- Axiolitic texture
B
[edit]- Botryoidal
- Brecciated
- Bedding fissile; bedding fissility
- Boudinage; boudins
C
[edit]- Cataclastic
- Chilled margin
- Clastic; see also breccia
- Cleaved
- Crenulated
- Cross-bedding
- Cross-stratification; also trough-cross stratification.
- Cumulate; see also layered intrusion
D
[edit]- Decussate
- Devitirification; devitrified
- Dendritic texture; dendrites
- Diatextite; see also schlieren and migmatite
E
[edit]- Embayed minerals; see igneous texture
- Equigranular
- Euhedral
- Eutaxitic
- Epiclastic
F
[edit]- Fiamme
- Foliation
- Fissile; see also Bedding fissility.
- Fossiliferous
G
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[edit]L
[edit]- Lepidoblastic
- Leucocratic
- Lineation, lineated
- L-tectonite
M
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[edit]O
[edit]- Ocelli
- Oolitic; see also limestone
- Ophitic texture
- Orbicular texture
- Orthocumulate
P
[edit]- Panidiomorphic
- Pegmatitic
- Peloidal
- Perthitic
- Phaneritic
- Phyllitic
- Pisolitic
- Poikilitic
- Poikiloblastic
- Porphyroclastic
- Porphyroblastic
- Porphyritic texture; see also porphyry
- Ptygmatic (folding); see migmatite
Q
[edit]R
[edit]- Rapakivi texture
S
[edit]- 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
[edit]U
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