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Figure 10. Schematic diagrams illustrating porosity in sedimentary rock with two different particle, or grain sizes (left), and in a crystalline rock (right). In the latter example, the porosity is restricted to the boundaries between “grains” that remains after they crystallized or grew, and is usually <2-5%.
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