Idioblast (geology)

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Idioblasts ( Greek ἴδιος "own", βλάστος blastos "germ") are granular minerals in metamorphic rock that have their own crystalline shape. The idioblastic (crystal loblastic) structure is the structure characteristic of common metamorphic rocks.

Examples of idioblasts include garnet , tourmaline , staurolite, and kyanite .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SM Mathur: Elements of Geology . Publishing house PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 2008, ISBN 978-81-203-3515-8 , pp. 88 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Dieter Richter: General Geology . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1992, ISBN 978-3-11-084737-6 , p. 232 ( Google Books ).