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    Color-Texture Identification For Igneous Rocks

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    This document provides a classification key for identifying igneous rocks based on their color, texture, and composition. It includes descriptions of common igneous rocks such as granite, diorite, gabbro, peridotite, rhyolite, andesite, and basalt. The key differentiates between these rock types based on characteristics such as their light or dark color, the presence of phenocrysts, grain size, and whether they have a glassy, vesicular, or fragmental texture.

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    This document provides a classification key for identifying igneous rocks based on their color, texture, and composition. It includes descriptions of common igneous rocks such as granite, diorite, gabbro, peridotite, rhyolite, andesite, and basalt. The key differentiates between these rock types based on characteristics such as their light or dark color, the presence of phenocrysts, grain size, and whether they have a glassy, vesicular, or fragmental texture.

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    This document provides a classification key for identifying igneous rocks based on their color, texture, and composition. It includes descriptions of common igneous rocks such as granite, diorite, gabbro, peridotite, rhyolite, andesite, and basalt. The key differentiates between these rock types based on characteristics such as their light or dark color, the presence of phenocrysts, grain size, and whether they have a glassy, vesicular, or fragmental texture.

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    This document provides a classification key for identifying igneous rocks based on their color, texture, and composition. It includes descriptions of common igneous rocks such as granite, diorite, gabbro, peridotite, rhyolite, andesite, and basalt. The key differentiates between these rock types based on characteristics such as their light or dark color, the presence of phenocrysts, grain size, and whether they have a glassy, vesicular, or fragmental texture.

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    Color/Texure Identification Key for Igneous Rocks

    Bowen's Reaction Series Percent Abundance Chart


    Composition Texture Key Igneous Home Page
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    White, Gray, Pink;
    Light Color black minerals rare GRANITE
    C O AR S E Intermediate Color Salt and Pepper
    •
    white/black 50/50 DIORITE
    GRAINED
    Phaneritic; crystals
    Dark Color No light minerals;
    dark gray to black GABBRO
    seen by eye
    Light Green; Olivine and/or
    PERIDOTITE
    granular; some black Pyroxene; no feldspar

    Light Color White, Gray, Pink RHYOLITE


    FINE FELSITE
    GRAINED
    A light to intermediate colored rock
    which cannot be positively idenified.

    Aphanitic; no crystals Dark gray typical


    visible; uniform
    Intermediate Color but other colors too ANDESITE
    Dark Color Dark gray to black BASALT
    Phenocrysts of
    RHYOLITE
    Light Color orthoclase and/or
    L ARGE quartz PORPHORY
    C R YS T A L S
    (Phenocrysts)
    Intermediate Color
    Phenocrysts of
    amphibole and/or
    plagioclase
    ANDESITE
    PORPYRY
    in groundmass Dark Color Phenocrysts of
    olivine
    BASALT
    PORPHYRY

    G L A SS Y Black, red, brown


    conchoidal fracture;
    breaks along smooth
    curving surfaces
    OBSIDIAN

    Light Color White to gray; spun


    PUMIICE
    glass look
    and light weight
    VESCellular;
    I C UL A R Dark Color Black, brown red SCORIA
    and light weight
    full of holes;
    often light wieght Dark Color Black, gray to VESICULAR
    and heavy brownish
    BASALT
    small, welded
    VOLCANIC TUFF
    FRAG - Any color; volcanic fragments;
    often stretched out
    volcanic fragments
    M ENT A L cemented together angular volcanic
    fragments larger than VOLCANIC
    64 mm BRECCIA

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