Hypocrystalline crystals + glass

Plane light

X polarized light

glass

Holocrystalline 100% crystals

Aphanitic
Phaneritic
0

10 mm

Fine-grained (<1 mm)

Medium-grained (1-5 mm)

Coarse-grained (5-30 mm)

Seriate/Hiatal

Equigranular

1mm

Porphyritic
1mm

1mm

Plagioclase Porphyritic or Plag-phyric

Euhedral

Subhedral

Anhedral

Ameboidal

Subpoikilitic

Poikililtic
Oikocryst
Chadacyrst

Skeletal

Embayed

Spinifex

Dendritic

Radial

Intergranular

Subophitic

Ophitic

Intersertal

Pyroclastic

glass
olivine

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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

IP
Bio
Cpx

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