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

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