Lect - No.3 Rocks and Texture Microsoft Word Document
Lect - No.3 Rocks and Texture Microsoft Word Document
Lect - No.3 Rocks and Texture Microsoft Word Document
4) Gneiss
Forms from high-grade metamorphism of schist.
Coarse-grained foliated rock, with distinct foliation.
These rocks display elongated and granular minerals which give the rock a dark and light
banded appearance.
Most common minerals
are quartz and feldspar.
Gneiss rocks have gneissosity texture
Non - Foliated Rocks Include:
5) Marble
Coarse crystalline network of calcite grains that form as a result of recrystallization. The
parent rock of marble is Limestone.
During recrystallization of limestone, bedding, fossils, and other sedimentary features are
destroyed.
Marble is used for statues and covering wall and floor te building.
Marble rocks have granoblastic texture
6) Quartzite
Forms when silica sand grains and silica cement recrystallize forming a coarse grained
network of silica. The parent rock of quartzite is quartz sandstone.
Moderate to high-grade metamorphism fuses the sand grains. Sometimes outlines of the
original grains may be seen, a feature called ghosting.
Quartzite is a very hard rock. Quartizite rocks have granoblastic texture
Poikiloblast:
It is a porphyroblast which contains numerous inclusion of one or more groundmass
minerals. This texture is similar to sieve texture.
Helicitic texture:
It is direction of an earlier foliation or bedding of the parent rocks ,which reflected in
curved lines of inclutions that are preserved within a porphyroblasts.In many cases
helicitic texture has S-shape which formed by rolling of porphyroblast during growth
by orogenic movement.
Cataclastic texture:
Sheared and crushed rock, which nature of original rock is recognizable by
undestroyed fragments.
Mylonite texture:
It is a texture formed as a result of extremely granulated and crushed rocks by intence
dynamic metamorphism, it has streaky and banded appearance.
Porphyroclast:
It is coarse, strained and broken large crystals in a finer-grained matrix.
Augen:
Thy are large porphyroclast in a finer-grained.