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Xenoblast vs Poikiloblastic - What's the difference?

xenoblast | poikiloblastic |

As a noun xenoblast

is a crystal forming in a metamorphic rock that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and which gets its shape from bordering crystals.

As an adjective poikiloblastic is

(geology) describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts.

xenoblast

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A crystal forming in a metamorphic rock that has not developed its characteristic crystalline faces and which gets its shape from bordering crystals.

    • Related terms

    * xenocryst

    poikiloblastic

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia poikiloblastic) (en adjective)
  • (geology) Describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts

    • Related terms

    *poikilitic