Igneous Rock Textures and Classification Based on Grain Size and Shape - Igneous Petrology

Igneous Rock Textures and Classification Based on Grain Size and Shape - Igneous Petrology

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What controls crystal shape?

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What controls crystal shape?

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Igneous Rock Textures and Classification Based on Grain Size and Shape - Igneous Petrology

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  1. 1 What are igneous textures?
  2. 2 Igneous textures vs. structures
  3. 3 How rocks form textures
  4. 4 Gibbs free energy & crystallization
  5. 5 Is crystallization spontaneous?
  6. 6 What controls crystal size?
  7. 7 Grain size rock texture classification
  8. 8 What controls crystal shape?
  9. 9 Grain shape rock texture classification
  10. 10 Upcoming content!
  11. 11 bloopers!

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