A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Calcite cleavage rhomb |
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| Description | Calcite, CaCO3, crystals are normally not rhombohedral shapes. But calcite's characteristic cleavage produces fragments that have this shape. This specimen of clear calcite, from an unknown location, is about 3 cm across. |
| Photographer | Dexter Perkins. 2001-05-22. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection. |
| Key words | calcite, cleavage |
| Tech details | 340 KB. Hand specimen. |
| GeoDIL number | 519 |
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