Igneous Rock Photos  
Cochise College                  
Virtual Geology Museum
Hall of Rocks

Photos of Rocks  
Geology Home Page                       

Roger Weller, geology instructor 
(
wellerr@cochise.edu )

Igneous Rock Table  (shows relationships)

                                 

Index
Number of photos: 487     Last edited:  5/15/13
Quick Tour:
10 Common Igneous Rocks
 

glassy                                                                   

    obsidian  (39)

    pumice  (29)

    pitchstone  (13)

    perlite  (8)                                                                  
fine grained (aphanitic) 
    andesite  (29)

    basalt  (57)
    dacite  (2)
    diabase  (6)
    phonolite  (2)
    rhyolite  (30)
    trachyte  (4)
    tuff  (36)
    lithophysa  (9)

coarse grained (phaneritic)
    anorthosite  (4)
    aplite  (2)
    diorite  (33)                                     
    dunite  (2)                                                                             

    gabbro  (26)

    granodiorite  (3)                                                                                   

    granite  (59)
    kimberlite  (2)
    monzonite  (17)  
    peridotite  (6)      
    pyroxenite  (2)                    
    syenite  (10)
very coarse grained

    pegmatite  (30)

porphyritic

    porphyry  (19)
 

igneous structures   (10)


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