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Texture term for Coarsed grained
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Phaneritic
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Texture term for Fine Grained
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Aphanetic
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Texture term for No crystals
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Glassy
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Texture term for two distinctive crystal types
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Porphyritic
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Texture term for very coarsed grained crystals, i.e bigger than your thumb
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Pegmatic
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Trapped bubble gasses that create wholes as in pumice
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Vesicular
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Porphiritc fine-grained, extrusive igneous rock composed mainly of plagioclase with other minerals such as hornblende, pyroxene and biotite |
Andesite
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Type of igneous rock that forms bigger crystals, and cools slower
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Intrusive
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Dark-colored volcanic glass that forms from the very rapid cooling of molten rock material. It cools so rapidly that crystals do not form |
Obsidian
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a dark-colored, vesicular, extrusive igneous rock. |
Scoria
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a light-colored, extremely coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock. It often contains rare minerals that are not found in other parts of the magma chamber. |
Pegmatite
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A coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock that contains a mixture of feldspar, pyroxene, hornblende and sometimes quartz. |
Diorite
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Fine-grained, dark-colored extrusive igneous rock composed mainly of plagioclase and pyroxene. |
Basalt
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a coarse-grained, dark colored, intrusive igneous rock that contains feldspar, augite and sometimes olivine |
Gabbro
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a light-colored, fine-grained, extrusive igneous rock that typically contains quartz and feldspar minerals. |
Rhyolite
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