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    This document discusses various rock textures and crystal structures seen in igneous rocks, including: - Hypocrystalline and holocrystalline textures referring to the relative proportions of crystals and glass - Aphanitic and phaneritic textures referring to grain size of crystals - Equigranular, seriate, porphyritic, and other crystal arrangements - Morphologies of individual mineral crystals including euhedral, anhedral, and other shapes - Textures resulting from reactions including coronas, symplectites, and exsolution textures - Structures including foliation, flow banding, and amygdules.

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    This document discusses various rock textures and crystal structures seen in igneous rocks, including: - Hypocrystalline and holocrystalline textures referring to the relative proportions of crystals and glass - Aphanitic and phaneritic textures referring to grain size of crystals - Equigranular, seriate, porphyritic, and other crystal arrangements - Morphologies of individual mineral crystals including euhedral, anhedral, and other shapes - Textures resulting from reactions including coronas, symplectites, and exsolution textures - Structures including foliation, flow banding, and amygdules.

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    Crystals, glass and textures in rocks

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    This document discusses various rock textures and crystal structures seen in igneous rocks, including: - Hypocrystalline and holocrystalline textures referring to the relative proportions of crystals and glass - Aphanitic and phaneritic textures referring to grain size of crystals - Equigranular, seriate, porphyritic, and other crystal arrangements - Morphologies of individual mineral crystals including euhedral, anhedral, and other shapes - Textures resulting from reactions including coronas, symplectites, and exsolution textures - Structures including foliation, flow banding, and amygdules.

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    Hypocrystalline crystals + glass

    Holocrystalline 100% crystals

    Plane light

    glass

    X polarized light

    Aphanitic Phaneritic
    0 5 10 mm

    Fine-grained (<1 mm) Medium-grained (1-5 mm)

    Coarse-grained (5-30 mm)

    Equigranular

    Seriate/Hiatal

    1mm

    Porphyritic
    1mm 1mm

    Plagioclase Porphyritic or Plag-phyric

    Euhedral

    Subhedral

    Anhedral

    Ameboidal

    Subpoikilitic

    Poikililtic Oikocryst Chadacyrst

    Embayed

    Skeletal

    Spinifex

    Dendritic

    Radial

    Intergranular

    Subophitic

    Ophitic

    Intersertal

    Pyroclastic

    glass olivine

    www-odp.tamu.edu/

    Philip Farquharson, 2004

    Foliation alignment of elongate minerals in a common plane

    Qualifiers:

    Non-foliated random orientation of elongate minerals Poorly foliated less than 50% aligned within 10 of common plane Moderately foliated 50-75% aligned Well foliated - > 75% aligned

    Radiate Trachytoid alignment in fine-grained volcanic rocks

    Sutured

    Symplectitic

    Micrographic/Granophyric

    Corona
    Biotite on Oxide
    Hornblende on Orthopyroxene

    Clinopyroxene on Olivine

    Rapakivi - Alkali Feldspar mantled by Plagioclase Feldspar

    Peritectic Reaction Rim Ol+melt = Opx

    Exsolution in Inverted Pigeonite < Blebby Lamellar >

    Linked Exsolution between Inverted Pigeonite (IP) and Augite (Cpx) Feox Perthite Na-plagioclase exsolved from K-feldspar Bio Cpx IP

    IP

    Oxide Needles in Plagioclase

    Oxide Exsolution and Epitaxial Biotite in Augite rimming Olivine

    Plagioclase Symplectite Pl>CaPl+Opx

    Olivine Symplectite Ol>Opx+Mt

    Simple Twin (in Cpx)

    Polysynthetic Twinning (Albite Twinning in Pl)

    Textural and Modal Layering in Gabbro

    Flow banding in Rhyolite

    Amygdules in Basalt

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