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

U

V

• Vesicular texture
• Variolitic
• Vitreous
• Vuggy

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