List of rock textures

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

A[]

• Adcumulate
• Agglomeritic
• Adamantine a type of lustre
• Amygdaloidal
• Anhedral
• 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
• ; dendrites
• Diatextite; see also schlieren and migmatite

E[]

• minerals; see igneous texture
• Equigranular
• Euhedral
• Eutaxitic

F[]

• Fiamme
• Foliation
• Fissile; see also Bedding fissility.
• Fossiliferous

G[]

• Glomeroporphyritic
• Gneissose; gneissic
• Granoblastic
• Granophyric
• Granulitic
• Graphic

H[]

• Holocrystalline
• Hyaline texture
• Hyalopilitic

I[]

• Imbricate

J[]

• Jointed

K[]

L[]

• Leucocratic
• Lineation, lineated
• L-tectonite

M[]

• Melanocratic
• Mesocumulate
• Mylonitic

N[]

O[]

• Ocelli
• Oolitic; see also limestone
• Ophitic texture
• Orbicular texture
• Orthocumulate

P[]

• Pegmatitic
• Peloidal
• Perthitic
• Phaneritic
• Phyllitic
• Pisolitic
• Poikilitic
• Poikiloblastic
• Porphyroclastic
• Porphyroblastic
• Porphyritic texture; see also porphyry
• (folding); see migmatite

Q[]

• Quench textures; see obsidian, tachylyte or aphanitic

R[]

• Rapakivi texture

S[]

• Sandy
• Schistose; schistosity
• Shear; sheared; shear fabric
• Slaty;
• Specular
• Spherulite
• ; see also komatiite
• S-tectonite
• Stratum
• Stromatolitic
• Stylolitic
• Subhedral
• Symplectite

T[]

• Tuffaceous

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V[]

• Vesicular texture
• Variolitic
• Vitreous
• Vuggy

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See also[]

• Crystallography
• Fracture (geology)
• Fracture (mineralogy)
• List of minerals
• List of rock types
• Rock microstructure