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A

Adcumulate

Agglomeritic

Adamantine a type of Lustre

Amygdaloidal

Anhedral

Antitaxial veins

Aphanitic

Aplitic ; aplite

Augen Textured Gneiss

Axiolitic texture

B

Botryoidal

Breccia ted

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 .

Fossil iferous

G

Glomeroporphyritic

Gneiss ose; 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

Porphyroclast ic

Porphyroblast ic

Porphyritic Texture ; see also Porphyry

Ptygmatic (folding); see Migmatite

Q

Quench textures; see Obsidian , Tachylyte or Aphanitic

R

Rapakivi texture

S

Sand y

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

Tuff aceous

U

V

Vesicular Texture

Viarolitic

Vitreous

Vug gy

W - Z

SEE ALSO

List Of Minerals

Rock Microstructure

List Of Rocks

Crystallography