cryptocrystal

A cryptocrystal is a rock whose texture is so finely crystallinethat is, made up of such minute crystalsthat its crystalline nature is only vaguely revealed even in a thin section by transmitted polarized light. Among the sedimentary rocks, chert and flint are cryptocrystalline. Lava flows, especially of the acidic type such as felsites and rhyolites, may have a cryptocrystalline ground mass as distinguished from pure obsidian (acidic) or tachylite (basic), which are natural rock glasses.

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