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Igneous Textures Flashcards

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Broad classification of igneous rocks based on the degree of crystallinity.

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Igneous Textures

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Fully developed crystals with clear faces, formed from slowly cooling magma.

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Euhedral/ Idiomorphic

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Partially complete crystal form

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Subhedral

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Crystals that lack any observable faces; fitting into available spaces between other crystals.

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Anhedral/ Xenomorphic

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A mix of euhedral, subhedral, and anhedral grains.

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Hypidiomorphic-granular Texture

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Wholly glassy texture

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Holohyaline

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Partially crystalline/ partially glass texture

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Hypocrystalline

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Wholly crystalline texture

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Holocrystalline

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contains small crystals less than 1 mm in diameter, and are associated with volcanic rocks that cool quickly on Earth’s Surface

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Aphanitic

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Igneous rocks with crystals so small that even a microscope can’t see them clearly.

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Cryptocrystalline

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Rocks with small crystals that are visible with a petrographic microscope.

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Microcrystalline

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Very small crystals that can’t be seen with the naked eye but can be identified using a petrographic microscope.

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Microlites

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large crystals averaging 1mm to 30mm

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Phaneritic

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1 mm - 3 mm

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Fine-grained

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3 mm - 10 mm

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Medium-grained

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10 mm - 30 mm

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Coarse-grained

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This texture has two different crystal sizes because the rock cooled in two stages.

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Porphyritic

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Phenocrysts forms in what size of crystal?

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LARGE

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What is fine-grained material in a porphyritic rock.

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Groundmass

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Type of porphyritic texture where all crystals are visible to the naked eye, with phenocrysts being larger than the surrounding groundmass.

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Porphyritic-Phaneritic

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Type of porphyritic texture where the phenocrysts are embedded in a groundmass that is too fine-grained to see clearly.

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Porphyritic-Aphanitic

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Large crystals averaging more than 30 mm in diameter, and develop most commonly in granitic plutons with high volatile contents.

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Pegmatitic

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What is an igneous rocks with pegmatitic texture?

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Pegmatite

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This measures how many new crystals form in a certain amount of space over a certain amount of time.

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Crystal Nucleation Rate

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rate at which your magma cools, which is the main factor for the formation of textures.

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Cooling rate

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the availability ions that can fill specific ionic sites in a crystal lattice structure that can be enhance crystal growth

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ion availability

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rate at which elements migrate through magma that depends primarily on the viscosity of the melt.

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Diffusion

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An element that thicken magma, slowing crystal growth.

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Network Formers

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an igneous rock texture primarily composed of glass that develop in lava that solidifies without experiencing significant crystallization

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Glassy/ Holohyaline

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an amorphous solid possessing a disordered form

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Glass

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This happens when molten rock comes into contact with air or water, causing it to cool very quickly.

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Quenching

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An igneous rock texture that contains recognizable phenocrysts in a glassy groundmass

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Vitrophyric

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A rock with a vitrophyric texture.

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Vitrophyre

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A process where a glass turning into crystals

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Devitrification

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are rounded masses of crystals that grow out from a central point during devitrification, often looking like small, radiating clusters.

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Spherulite

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Black, glassy obsidian with cristobalite seeds that grew as “white snowflakes” within the obsidian.

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Snowflake obsidian

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An igneous rock texture characterized by a cloudy appearance and rounded cracks

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Perlitic

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A type of volcanic rock that is rich in silica (SiO₂) and has a glassy texture.

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Perlite

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These are curved or spherical cracks that form in perlitic rocks as they cool, giving them a distinctive pattern.

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Perlitic cracks

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A texture in igneous rocks that forms when gas bubbles get trapped in cooling lava.

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Vesicular

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These are spherical or ellipsoidal void spaces

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Vesicles

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A depth where volatiles exsolve from the liquid as a separate phase

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Level of exsolution

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A process where small gas bubbles form in the magma above the level of exsolution.

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Vesiculation

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This occurs when gas bubbles take up 70-80% of the magma’s volume

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Fragmentation surface

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A term used before a rock’s name if it contains 5-30% vesicles

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Vesicular

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A term used for rocks with less than 5% vesicles.

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Vesicle-bearing

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An igneous rock texture primarily made up of cemented or welded pyroclasts

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Pyroclastic

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The rock particles of different sizes that are blown out during a volcanic eruption.

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Pyroclasts

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Airborne pyroclastic material.

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Tephra

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Rock fragment pyroclasts.

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Lithic

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Glassy fragment pyroclasts.

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Vitric

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Mineral or crystalline pyroclasts.

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Crystals

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