Poikilitic texture refers to igneous rocks where large later-formed less perfect crystals ('oikocrysts') surround smaller early-formed idiomorphic crystals...
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Vitrophyre (redirect from Vitrophyric texture)
texture. This texture results from the rapid quenching of a lava where phenocrysts had started to form prior to eruption. Obsidian Poikilitic texture...
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Peridotite (section Color, morphology, and texture)
crystals formed from liquid magma trapped in the cumulate. Many show poikilitic texture in which crystallization of this liquid has produced crystals that...
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stone Ophitic dialect, a variant of Pontic Greek Ophitic, a type of poikilitic texture in igneous rocks This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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limestone Ophitic texture Orbicular texture Orthocumulate Panidiomorphic Pegmatitic Peloidal Perthitic Phaneritic Phyllitic Pisolitic Poikilitic Poikiloblastic...
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Johan (1998-08-01). "Magma replenishment, and the significance of poikilitic textures, in the Lower Main Zone of the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa"...
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crystals or as large grains enclosing smaller grains of other minerals (poikilitic grains). Geologists use rigorous quantitative definitions to classify...
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homogeneous, coherent, hollocrystaline impact melt rock with classic poikilitic texture highly enriched in trace elements and siderophile elements and has...
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light gray to gray-white, with a massive uniform-grained texture. The structure is poikilitic and hypidiomorpho-grained. The main rock-forming minerals...
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zoning present. Mineral texture Porphyritic (large xenocryst surrounded by fine crystals), Melange (mix of minerals), Poikilitic (one mineral grown around...
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