Chondrule Textural Types

   
Type I - FeO poor (Reduced)
Type II - FeO rich (Oxidized)
     
   
 
PO - Porphyritic Olivine
Small olivine phenocrysts
 
Large euhedral to subhedral olivine phenocrysts
 
 
 
   

Porphyritic

 
PP - Porphyritic Pyroxene
Smaller pyroxine grains than Type II. Often with poikilitic olivine inclusions
 
Large, often densely packed grains of pyroxene
 
 
   
 
POP - Porphyritic Olivine-Pyroxine
 

Small olivine and large pyroxene grains which usually poikilitically enclose olivine

 

Usually large olivine crystals or laths and pyroxene phenocrysts of similar or smaller size

     
   
   
   
 
RP - Radial Pyroxene
Thin fibers or laths having grown from one or more points on the shell
 
   

Non-Porphyritic

 
BO - Barred Olivine
Shell containing sub-parallel bars
 
   
 
C - Cryptocrystalline
Microcrystalline intergrowths in multiple orientations
 
 
 
   
 
GO, GOP - Granular Olivine (Pyroxene)
Very small grains, sometimes surrounded by a shell of coarser grains and containing blebs of metal and sulfides