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 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
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
Pisolitic
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
Stylolitic
Subhedral
T
Tuffaceous
V
Vesicular texture
Variolitic
Vitreous
Vuggy
See also
List of minerals
Rock microstructure
List of rock types
Crystallography
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