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 layered intrusion

D

 * Decussate
 * Devitirification; devitrified
 * Dendritic texture; dendrites
 * Diatextite; see also schlieren and migmatite

E

 * Embayed minerals; see igneous texture
 * Equigranular
 * Euhedral
 * Eutaxitic
 * Epiclastic

F

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

G

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

H

 * Holocrystalline
 * Hyaline texture
 * Hyalopilitic

I

 * Imbricate
 * Intergrowth texture

J

 * Jointed

K

 * Kelyphitic

L

 * Lepidoblastic
 * Leucocratic
 * Lineation, lineated
 * L-tectonite

M

 * Melanocratic
 * Mesocratic
 * Mesocumulate
 * Mylonitic

N

 * Nematoblastic

O

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

P

 * Panidiomorphic
 * Pegmatitic
 * Peloidal
 * Perthitic
 * Phaneritic
 * Phyllitic
 * Pisolitic
 * Poikilitic
 * Poikiloblastic
 * 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
 * Seriate texture
 * Shear; sheared; shear fabric
 * Slaty; slaty cleavage
 * Specular
 * Spherulite
 * Spinifex texture; see also komatiite
 * S-tectonite
 * Stratabound
 * Stratum
 * Stromatolitic
 * Stylolitic
 * Subhedral
 * Symplectite

T

 * Tuffaceous
 * Trachytic texture

V

 * Vesicular texture
 * Variolitic
 * Vitreous
 * Vuggy