phanerittinen
Phanerittinen, or phaneritic in English, is a texture term in geology used to describe igneous rocks whose crystals are coarse-grained and visible to the naked eye. The name comes from the Greek phaneros, meaning visible. This texture reflects relatively slow cooling of magma, typically deep within the crust, which allows individual minerals to grow to noticeable sizes before solidification.
Phaneritic rocks are usually intrusive (plutonic) in origin, forming in settings such as batholiths, stocks, and
Phaneritic texture is contrasted with aphanitic texture, where crystals are too small to see without magnification,
In Finnish geology, the term phanerittinen is used similarly to describe this coarse-grained, visible-crystal texture, which