habit section

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Minerals are shown in following order:
mineral-property-type-[value-of-property] ----- name of mineral (variant) OTHER NOTES [PICTURE]


habit-and-texture-[acicular] ----- goethite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[acicular] ----- natrolite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[acicular-radiating-habit] ----- wavellite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[albite-lamallae] ----- alkali feldspar [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[A-structure] ----- muscovite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[banded] ----- agate [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[banded-botryoidal] ----- psilomelane [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[bladed-aggregate] ----- stilbite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[bladed] ----- barite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[bladed-habit] ----- magnetite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[bladed] ----- tremolite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[botryoidal] ----- geode (clear quartz and chalcedony) [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[columnar] ----- limonite in barite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[columnar-structure] ----- CANTREADNAME [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[concentric-banding] ----- gibbsite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[concretionary] ----- azurite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[concretionary] ----- clay [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[crystollographically-controlled-graphite-intergrowths] ----- andalusite (chiastolite) [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[curved-micaceous] ----- muscovite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[dendrite-pattern-lithographic] ----- limestone [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[druse-crystals] ----- quartz amethyst [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[drusy-botryoidal-concentrically-banded] ----- chrysocolla or cerrusite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[drusy] ----- calcite and celestite crystals [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[drusy] ----- quartz [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[fibrous] ----- crocidolite (Na amphibolite asbestos) [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[fibrous] ----- satin spar gypsum [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[fibrous] ----- serpentine [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[fine-granular-texture] ----- marble [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[flaky-habit] ----- covellite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[foliated] ----- talc [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[interlocking-grain-aggregates-medium-grained] ----- dolomite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[lithographic-fine-grained] ----- limestone [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[mammilary-or-reneform] ----- spherulites [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[massive] ----- serpentine [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[micaceous] ----- muscovite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[octrahedral-overgrowths-magnetic] ----- magnetite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[opalescence] ----- opal [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[overgrowth] ----- biotite silver overgrowth on left [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[perthitic-intergrowths] ----- albite plagioclase llamellae in k feldspar [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[platy] ----- albite plagioclase [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[prismatic-habit-bladed] ----- stibnite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[radial-bladed] ----- zeolite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[radial] ----- tremolite 1 [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[radial] ----- tremolite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[radiating-acicular] ----- wavellite (in breccia) [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[reticulated-or-mesh-texture] ----- muscovite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[rutilated-with-acicular-rutile] ----- quartz [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[tabular] ----- calcite [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[threadlike-brittle-fibrous] ----- peles hair basaltic [PICTURE]
habit-and-texture-[tubular-stalactitic] ----- calcite [PICTURE]


Mineral Specimens from SUNY Potsdam Geology Dept.
Page created by Eric Thern (eric [at] thern.org), November 2001
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