LIST OF ROCK TEXTURES

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

Contents

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W - Z

See also

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 Ultramafic to mafic layered intrusions

D

★ Decussate

★ Devitirification; devitrified

★ Dendritic texture; dendrites

★ Diatextite; see also schlieren and migmatite

E

★ Embayed minerals; see igneous texture

★ Euhedral

★ Eutaxitic

★ Epiclastic

F

★ Fiamme

★ Foliation

★ Fissile; see also Bedding fissility.

★ Fossiliferous

G

★ Glomeroporphyritic

★ Gneissose; gneissic

★ Granoblastic

★ Granophyric

★ Granulitic

★ Graphic

H

★ Holocrystalline

★ Hyaline texture

I

★ Imbricate, imbricate

J

★ Jointed

K

L

★ Lepidoblastic

★ Leucocratic; see also melanocratic

★ Lineation, lineated

★ L-tectonite

M

★ Mesocumulate

★ Mylonitic

N

★ Nematoblastic

O

★ Ocelli

★ oolitic; see also limestone

★ Ophitic texture

★ Orbicular texture

★ Orthocumulate

P

★ Panidiomorphic

★ Perthitic

★ Phaneritic

★ Phyllitic

★ pisolite

★ Porphyroclastic

★ Porphyroblastic

★ Porphyritic texture; see also porphyry

★ Ptygmatic (folding); see migmatite

Q

★ Quench textures; see obsidian, tachylyte or aphanitic

R

★ Rapakivi texture

S

★ Sandy

★ Schistose; schistosity

★ Shear; sheared; shear fabric

★ Slaty; slaty cleavage

★ Specular

★ Spinifex texture; see also komatiite

★ S-tectonite

★ Stratabound

★ Stratiform

★ Stromatolitic

★ Styolite or Styolitic

★ Subhedral

T

★ Tuffaceous

U

V

★ Vesicular texture

★ Viarolitic

★ Vitreous

★ Vuggy

W - Z

See also

★ List of minerals

★ Rock microstructure

★ List of rocks

★ Crystallography