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
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V Vesicular texture Variolitic Vitreous Vuggy
W - Z
See also
Crystallography Fracture (geology) Fracture (mineralogy) List of minerals List of rock types Rock microstructure