Vocabulary
This is an ever growing list that we will continue to work on forever!
Aggregate – accumulation or mass of crystals
Asthenosphere – a layer of the earth’s interior that consists of magma and exists beneath the lithosphere
Band – an easily identified layer within a mineral
Botryoidal – crusts of a mineral that formed in rounded masses, resembling a bunch of grapes
Breccia – a coarse grained rock composed of broken angular rock fragments solidified together
Chalcedony – a massive, microcrystalline variety quartz
Cleavage – the property of a mineral to break along the planes of its crystal structure, which reflects its internal crystal shape
Concentric
Continental plate
Concoidal
Crust
Crystal
Cubic
Druse
Effervesce
Feldspar
Fibrous
Fluorescence
Fracture
Glassy – vitreous luster
Gneiss
Granite
Granular
Hexagonal
Host
Hydrous
Igneous
Impurity
Inclusion
Iridescence
Lava
Lithosphere
Luster
Magma
Massive
Matrix
Metamorphic
Metamorphosed
Mica
Microcrystalline
Mineral
Native element
Nodule
Oceanic plate
Octahedral
Opaque
Ore
Oxidation
Pearly
Phenocryst
Porphyry
Prismatic
Pseudomorph
Pyroxene
Radiating
Rhombohedron
Rock
Schiller
Schist
Sediment
Sedimentary rock
Series
Silica
Specific gravity
Specimen
Stalactite
Stratovolcano
Striated
Subduction
Subduction zone
Tabular
Tailings
Tectonic plate
Tarnish
Translucent
Transparent
Trench
Twin
Vein
Vesicle – gas bubbles
Volcano
Waxy
zeolite
Inclusions – growths of other minerals embedded with agates