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

Radial
Spinifex Dendritic
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 Peritectic Reaction Rim
mantled by Plagioclase Ol+melt = Opx
Feldspar
Exsolution in
Inverted
Pigeonite

< Blebby

Lamellar >
Linked Exsolution between Inverted
Pigeonite (IP) and Augite (Cpx)

Feox

Perthite Na-plagioclase
IP exsolved from K-feldspar

Bio IP

Cpx
 Oxide Exsolution and Epitaxial Biotite
Oxide Needles in Plagioclase in Augite rimming Olivine
Plagioclase Olivine
Symplectite Symplectite
Pl>CaPl+Opx Ol>Opx+Mt
Simple Twin (in Cpx) Polysynthetic Twinning
(Albite Twinning in Pl)
Textural and Modal Layering
Flow banding in Rhyolite
in Gabbro
Amygdules in Basalt