Spherulite
Bodies that commonly occur in vitreous igneous rocks / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about lithology. For other uses, see spherulite (polymer physics).
In petrology, spherulites (/ˈsfɛrʊlaɪts, sfɪər-/) are small, rounded bodies that commonly occur in vitreous igneous rocks. They are often visible in specimens of obsidian, pitchstone, and rhyolite as globules about the size of millet seed or rice grain, with a duller luster than the surrounding glassy base of the rock, and when they are examined with a lens they prove to have a radiate fibrous structure.