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LEUCITE
Tephrite
PHONOLITE: LEUCITITE:
OLIVINE BASALT:
(Leucite trachyte) pyroxene and
with olivine
leucite only leucite
feldspathoid
Trap: dark-
TINGUAITE: ANALCITE LEUCITE MELILITITE:
colored aphanitic
abundant BASALT: with TEPHRITE: leucite pyroxene and
Rhyolite Trachyte Nepheline Latite Dacite Andesite Limburgite rock Felsite: light-
aegirine analcite only feldspathoid melilite
Microcrystalline Quartz Latite Latite colored aphanitic
Dikes, sills, surface (DELLENITE) (TRACHY- OLIVINE rock
Aphanitic flows, margins of ANDESITE) NEPHELINITE
larger masses, WYOMINGITE: (NEPHELINE
QUARTZ BASALT: BASANITE: with
welded tuffs leucite and BASALT):
with quartz olivine
phlogopite pyroxene,
nepheline, and
olivine. ETC.
LEUCITE
OCEANITE: with
BASANITE: with
abundant olivine
Glassy Normally it is not possible to determine the composition of these rocks. They are customarily designated by the
Surface flows, names at the left of this column. Basic glass is rare so rocks named, except scoria, will normally be silicic. If the
margins of dikes and approximate composition (by close association) or silica content (by refractive index or analysis), can be
sills, welded tuffs Obsidian: black Pitchstone: resinous Vitrophyre: porphyritic Perlite: concentric fractures Pumice: finely cellular, light colored Scoria: coarsely cellular, dark colored
determined, the name may be prefixed by the name of the appropriate aphanitic rock, for example, "trachyte
obsidian," or "latite vitrophyre." In general, scoria is basic; basic obsidian is called "tachylite"; and spherulitic
tachylite is "variolite."
By Russel B. Travis, Quarterly of the Colorado School of Mines, vol. 50, no. 1
SAMPLE NUMBER/CODE : IGN032
ROCK TYPE : FELSIC IGNEOUS ROCK
ROCK DESCRIPTION
Colour : white grey Crystal size : medium to coarse grained (2-7 mm) Texture based
from crystal size : phanerophorphyritic Texture based from crystallinity : holocrystalline
Texture based from crystal connection : hypidiomorphic granular. Composition : orhoclase
(phenocryst), quartz, plagioclase, hornblende, magnetite (ground mass).
MINERALOGY DESCRIPTION
- Orthoclase : Colour : pinkish white Crystall size : 5-7 mm Streak : white Lustre :
vitreous Cleavage : 2, distinc Habit : blocky, columnar Crystal face : subhedral
Abundance : 50%
- Quartz : Colour : colorless Crystall size : 2-4 mm Streak : white Lustre : vitreous
Cleavage : indistinc Habit : granular Crystal face : anhedral Abundance : 20%
- Plagioclase : Colour : white Crystall size : 2-4 mm Streak : white Lustre : vitreous
Cleavage : 1 Habit : short prismatic Crystal face : subhedral Abundance : 10%
- Horblende : Colour : black Crystall size : 3-5 mm Streak : black Lustre : vitreous
Cleavage : 2 Habit : columnar Crystal face : subhedral Abundance : 15%
- Magnetite : Colour : black Crystall size : 2 mm Lustre : submetal Cleavage :
indistinc Habit : granular Crystal face : euhedral Abundance : 5%
2. Sorting
3. Shape
4. Roundness
5. Fabric (Grain supported, matrix supported)
SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE
SILISICLASTIC COMPONENET
CLASTIC SEDIMENTARY ROCK CLASSIFICATION
CARBONATE ROCK CLASSIFICATION
Folk based classification
CARBONATE ROCK GRAIN
MINERALOGY DESCRIPTION
- Garnet : Colour : dark red Crystall size : 8-10 mm Streak : pinkish white : vitreous
Cleavage : 0 Habit : granular equidimensional Crystal face : euhedral Abundance :
25%
- Quartz : Colour : colorless Crystall size : 4-6 mm Streak : white Lustre : vitreous
Cleavage : indistinc Habit : granular Crystal face : subhedral Abundance : 35%
- Muscovite : Colour : white silver Crystall size : 2-4 mm Streak : white Lustre :
vitreous-silky Cleavage : 1 Habit : lamelar Crystal face : subhedral Abundance : 40%