Alphabetical list of recommended and restricted terms in the glossary
Recommended terms in regular font; restricted terms in italics
f. – facies, fmt. – formation, gn. – gneiss, ln. – lineation, m. – metamorphism,
ms. – metasomatism, str. - structure
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Aceite
Acicular
Acid
Adinole (adinolisation, contact adinole, tuffaceous adinole)
Adinole series
Agmatite
Alkremite
Allochemical contact m.
Allochemical m.
Allochthonous impact breccia
Allofacial
Allogenic
Alteration
Amphibolite
Amphibolite f.
Ana-
Anakit-type contact m.
Anatexis
Anatexite
Anchimetamorphism
Anchizone
Andalusite-sillimanite series
Anhedral
Antitaxial
Aphanitic
Argillisite (argillisation)
Armoured relict
Arterite
Assemblage
Atoll str.
Augen
Augen mylonite
Augen str.
Augen gneiss
Aureole
Authigenesis
Authigenic
Autochthonous(parautochtonous) impact
breccia
Autometamorphism
Autometasomatism
Axial plane foliation
B
Baked rock (baking)
Band (banding, banded)
Banded gneiss
Banded str.
Baric types of m.
Barrovian-type facies series
Barrow's zones (Barrovian zones)
Basic
Bathograd
Bathozone
Beerbachite
Beresite (beresitisation)
Bimetasomatism
Bi-mineralic
Blast, blasto-, blastic
Blastesis
Blastomylonite
Blueschist
Blueschist f.(epidote-blueschist facies)
Bosost-type contact m.
Boudin
Boudinage
Boundary ms.
Bow-tie structure
Breccia
Breccia dyke
Buchite
Bunte breccia
Burial m.
Burned rock, burnt rock
Burning m.
C
C/S fabric
Calciphyre
Calc-schist
Calc-silicate mineral
Calc-silicate rock
Californite
Carbonate-silicate rock
Cata-
Cataclasite (cataclastic structure, cataclasis)
Central uplift
Charnockite ( charnokitic series )
Chemographical diagram
Cipolin
Cleavage (domainal, M-domain,
Q-domain)
Coal-fire ash
Cokeite
Combustion m.
Complex impact crater
Composition phase diagram
Comrie-type contact m.
Contact
Contact aureole (inner aureole, outer aureole)
Contact aureole systematics
Contact marble
Contact m.
Contact ms. (endo-, exocontact zone)
Contact rock
Contact zone
Continuous cleavage
Continuous ejecta blanket
Continuous reaction
Core-and-mantle str.
Corona (corona str.)
Crenulation
Crenulation cleavage/schistosity
Critical mineral assemblage
Crystalline limestone
Crystalloblast (crystalloblastic str.)
Crystalloblastesis
D
Dactylitic str.
Decorated planar deformation
features
Decussate str.
Deformation lamellae/bands
Degranitisation
Dehydration reaction
Depositional temperature
Depth zones
Diablastic str.
Diagenesis (shallow diagenesis, deep diagenesis)
Diagenetic zone
Diaphthoresis
Diaphthorite
Diaplectic glass (solid state glass)
Diastathermal m.
Diatexis
Diatexite, diatectite
Dictyonite
Differentiation
Diffusional ms.
Discontinuous reaction
Disequilibrium assemblage
Disjunctive cleavage
Dislocation m.
Dissolution creep
Distal impactite
Domain
Dyke (impact) breccia
E
Eclogite
Eclogite f.
Ejecta
Ejecta blanket
Ejecta plume
Emery rock
Enderbite
Endocontact zone
Endometamorphism
Endomorphism
Endoskarn
Epi-
Epidote-amphibolite f.
Epigenetic
Epitaxis (epitaxy, epitaxial growth)
Epithermal
Epizone (epimetamorphic zone)
Equant
Equigranular
Equilibration shock pressure
Euhedral
Exocontact zone
Exometamorphism
Exomorphism
Exoskarn
F
Fabric (mega, meso, microfabric, linear f., planar f., random f.)
Facies
Facies series (metamorphic facies series )
Fallback (fallback formation)
Fallout (fallout formation)
Fascicular (fascicular str.)
Faserkiesel
Fault
Fault breccia
Fault gouge
Fault rock
Fault zone
Feldspathisation
Felsic granulite
Felsic minerals
Felsic rock
Fenite (fenitisation)
Flaser gabbro (flasergabbro)
Flaser str.
Foliated str.
Foliation (s-surface)
Fracture
Fracture cleavage
Fritted rock (fritting)
Fulgurite
G
Garbenschiefer
Geobarometer
Geotherm
Geothermal gradient
Geothermometer
Ghost stratigraphy (ghost str.)
Glaucophane-schist f.
Glaucophanite
Glomeroblastic str.
Gneiss (lineated gn.)
Gneissose str.
Gondite
Gorotubite
Gouge
Grain size
Granitisation
Granoblastic str.
Granoblastic-polygonal str.
Granofels
Granofelsic str.
Granulite
Granulite f.
Granulitic
Granulitic (impact) breccia
Greenschist
Greenschist f.
Greenstone
Greenstone belt
Greisen (greisenisation)
Griquaite
Grospydite
Gumbeite (gumbeitisation)
H
Hartschiefer
Helicitic str.
Heteroblastic str.
Homeoblastic str.
Hornblendite
Hornfels
Hornfelsed schist
Hot-slab m.
H ugoniot curve
Hugoniot elastic limit
Hugoniot equation-of-state (Rankine-Hugoniot-equation)
Hybridisation (hybrid)
Hydrothermal m.
Hydrothermal ms.
Hypidioblast (hypidioblastic str.)
Hypothermal
I
Idioblast (idioblastic str.)
Impact (hypervelocity impact)
Impact breccia
Impact crater
Impact ejecta
Impact formation (inner imp. fmt.,
outer imp. fmt.)
Impact glass
Impactite
Impact m.
Impact melt
Impact melt rock
Impact m.
Impactoclast
Impactoclastic air-fall bed
Impactoclastic deposit
Impactor
Impact pseudotachylite
Impact regolith
Impact structure
Inclusion (inclusion trails,
internal foliation (S i ),
external foliation (S e ))
Index mineral
Inequant
Infiltration ms.
Injection
Intermediate
Inverted metamorphic zones
Isochemical contact m.
Isochemical m.
Isochemical series
Isofacial
Isograd
Isograde
Itabirite
Itacolumite
-Ite
J
Joint (joint set, jointing)
K
Kata-
Katazone
Kelyphite (kelyphitic str.)
Khondalite
Kinzigite
Knotted schist
Kodurite
Kyanite-sillimanite series
L
Laminated str.
Layer (layered, layering)
Lepidoblastic str.
Leucocratic
Leucophyllite
Leucosome
Lightning m.
Lineation (mineral ln., crenulation ln., intersection ln.)
Listvenite
Lithic (impact) breccia
Lit-par-lit injection (lit-par-lit gneiss)
Local m.
M
Mafic granulite
Mafic hornfels
Mafic minerals
Mafic rock
Magnesian hornfels
Main Donegal-type contact m.
Mantled porphyroclast
Marble (pure marble, impure marble)
Maskelynite
Megabreccia
Megaregolith
Megastructure
Melanocratic
Melanosome
Melt pocket
Melt vein
Meso-
Mesocataclasite
Mesomylonite
Mesosome
Mesostructure
Mesothermal
Mesozone
Meta-
Metablastesis
Metamorphic geotherm
Metamorphic assemblage
Metamorphic differentiation
Metamorphic event
Metamorphic facies
Metamorphic facies series
Metamorphic grade
Metamorphic phase
Metamorphic rock
Metamorphic subfacies
Metamorphic zone
Metamorphism
Metasomatic column
Metasomatic contact m.
Metasomatic facies
Metasomatic family
Metasomatic rock
Metasomatic zone
Metasomatism
Metatect
Metatexis
Metatexite
Meteorite crater
Mica-fish
Mica schist
Microbreccia
Microcrystite
Microlithon
Microstructure
Microtektite
Migmatite (migmatisation)
Millipede str.
Mimetic growth/crystal.
Mineral assemblage/assoc.
Mineral facies
Mineral zone
Monometamorphism
Monomict impact breccia
Mono-mineralic
Monophase m.
Mortar str.
Mosaic str.
Mosaicism
Mullion str.
Multi-ring (impact) basin
Multi-ring (impact) crater
Mylonite
N
Near-vein ms.
Nebulite
Nematoblastic str.
Neoblast
Neomineralisation
Neosome
O
Ocean-floor m.
Ophicalcite
Ophicarbonate (ophimagnesite)
Orogenic m.
Ortho-
P
Paired metamorphic belts
Palaeoblast
Palaeosome
Palimpsest str.
Palingenesis (palingenite)
Para-
Paragenesis (paragenetic sequence)
Parent rock
Particle velocity
Pelite
Pencatite
Petrogenetic grid
Phacoid (phacoidal str.)
Phaneritic
Phlebite
Phyllite
Phyllonite
Piezo-thermic array
Pinch-and-swell str.
Pinitisation
Planar deformation features (PDF)
Planar deformation str.
Planar fractures
Planar microstructure
Plurifacial m.
Poikiloblast (poikilitic str.)
Polygonal str.
Polymetamorphism
Polymict impact breccia
Poly-mineralic
Polymorphic transformation
(polymorphism)
Polyphase m.
Porphyroblast (porphyroblastic str.)
Porphyroclast (porphyroclastic str.)
Porphyroclast system
Porphyroid
Post-shock temperature (progressive shock m.)
Prasinite
Predazzite
Preferred orientation
Prehnite-actinolite f.
Prehnite-pumpellyite f.
Pressure shadow
Pressure solution (press. sol. striping/cleavage, solution transfer, dissolution creep)
Prograde m. (progressive m.)
Prograde shock m. (progressive shock m.)
Projectile
Propylite (propylitisation)
Protocataclasite
Protolith
Protomylonite
Proximal impactite
Psammite
Pseudomorph
Pseudotachylite
P-T-t path
Ptygmatic folding
Pumpellyite-actinolite f.
Pyribolite
Pyriclasite
Pyrigarnite
Pyrometamorphism
Pyroxene-hornfels f.
Pyroxenite
R
Reaction rim (reaction border)
Recrystallisation
Regional m.
Regional ms.
Regolith
Regolith breccia
Relict str.
Resister
Restite
Retrograde m. (retrogressive m.)
Ribbon str. (ribbon quartz)
Rodingite (rodingitisation)
S
Sanidinite f.
Saussuritisation
S-C fabric
Schist
Schistoid
Schistose hornfels
Schistose str.
Schistosity
Schlieren
Schollen
Secondary
Secondary quartzite
Semipelite
Sericitisation
Serpentinite
Shatter cone
Sheaf str.
Shock deformation
Shocked rocks
Shock effect (residual shock effect)
Shock front
Shock impedance
Shock melting
Shock m.
Shock stage
Shock state
Shock temperature
Shock vaporisation
Shock vein
Shock wave
Shock wave velocity
Shock zone
Sieve str.
Simple impact crater
Skarn (magnesian sk., calc sk.)
Slate
Slaty cleavage
Snowball str.
Solution transfer
Solvus
Spaced cleavage/schistosity
Spilite
Spotted schist/slate
Stromatite (stromatitic str.)
Stronalite
Structure
Subfabric
Subfacies
Subgrain
Subgrain boundary
Subgreenschist f.
Subhedral
Subidioblast (subidioblastic str.)
Suevite, suevite breccia
Sutured boundary
Symplectite (symplectic
intergrowth)
Synantetic
Syngenetic
Syntaxial (syntaxial vein, syntaxial growth)
T
Tabular
Tagamite
Tanohata-type contact m.
Target
Target lithology
Target rock
Tectonite (L-tect., S-tect., L-S tect.)
Tektite
Texture
Thermal m.
Thermochron
Topochemical change
Topotaxis (topotaxy, topotaxial growth)
Transient crater (transient cavity)
Tri-mineralic
Types of metamorphism
Typomorphic minerals
U
Ultrabasic
Ultracataclasite
Ultrahigh-pressure m.
Ultramafic hornfels
Ultrametamorphism
Ultramylonite
Undulose extinction
Uralitisation
U
Vapour plume
Venite
Verdite
Verdolite
Vert antique
Vogtland-type contact m.
W
Whiteschist
X
Xenoblast (xenoblastic str.)
Z
Zeolite f.