Textures

Growth zoning (with reference to inherited core and sieve-texture)

Eutectic intergrowth texture (graphic, granophyre)

Skeletal growth (spinifex, dendrite)

Twinning and clevage

Unmixing of solid solution phases

Grain size and associated terminology (pegmatite, myarolitic, porphyritic, oickocryst, porphyroblast, etc.)

Recrystallisation (annealing, decomposition - symplectite, etc., diablastic)

Replacement texture

Deformation

Concretionary zoning (oolite, pisolite, framboid)

Magmatic layering

Magma mingling and immiscibility

Veins

Breccia (magmatic, volcanic, tectonic, sedimentary) - see the Earth Science Australia website

Minerals

(photo gallery, to come)

Mineral chemistry

(to come)