This page is intended to be a list of rock textural and morphological terms.
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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
- 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 layered intrusion
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
H
- Holocrystalline
- Hyaline texture
I
J
K
L
- Lepidoblastic
- Leucocratic; see also melanocratic
- Lineation, lineated
- L-tectonite
M
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
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
- Symplectite
T
U
V
W - Z
See also
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