eutaxitic

[¦yü·tak′sid·ik]

(petrology)

Referring to the banded appearance in certain extrusive rocks, resulting from the layering of different textures, materials, or colors.

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eutaxite
pipernoid texture

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The petrogenesis of reddish brown horizon clearly exhibits the presence of a glassy matrix with discontinous pattern of laminations indicating a eutaxitic texture (Fig.7).

New observations on the Lameta Formation-Deccan Trap contact in Narmada Basin, Western India--implications for terminal cretaceous events

The dated sample is a fine-grained flow-banded rhyolitic flow with well-developed eutaxitic and locally spherulitic texture.

Age and geochemistry of Late Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian igneous rocks in southern New Brunswick: similarities and contrasts

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