trachytoidal
trachytoidal Applied to a foliation resulting from a parallel alignment of tabular feldspars in a coarse-grained rock, e.g. syenite. When the same alignment occurs in fine-grained rocks, e.g. trachytes, it is called ‘trachytic texture’.
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