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    This document describes different crystal habits including needle-like, almond-shaped, poorly formed, blade-like, grape-like, column-like, flaky, tree-like, dodecahedral, minute crystal coating, mirror-image, roughly equal dimensions, well-formed, hair-like, layered, shapeless, roughly spherical, octahedral, feather-like, elongate, hexagonal, kidney-shaped, net-like, rose-like, wedge-shaped, cylindrical, star-like, surface growth lines, partially developed, flat, and resembling wheat sheaves.

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    This document describes different crystal habits including needle-like, almond-shaped, poorly formed, blade-like, grape-like, column-like, flaky, tree-like, dodecahedral, minute crystal coating, mirror-image, roughly equal dimensions, well-formed, hair-like, layered, shapeless, roughly spherical, octahedral, feather-like, elongate, hexagonal, kidney-shaped, net-like, rose-like, wedge-shaped, cylindrical, star-like, surface growth lines, partially developed, flat, and resembling wheat sheaves.

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    This document describes different crystal habits including needle-like, almond-shaped, poorly formed, blade-like, grape-like, column-like, flaky, tree-like, dodecahedral, minute crystal coating, mirror-image, roughly equal dimensions, well-formed, hair-like, layered, shapeless, roughly spherical, octahedral, feather-like, elongate, hexagonal, kidney-shaped, net-like, rose-like, wedge-shaped, cylindrical, star-like, surface growth lines, partially developed, flat, and resembling wheat sheaves.

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    This document describes different crystal habits including needle-like, almond-shaped, poorly formed, blade-like, grape-like, column-like, flaky, tree-like, dodecahedral, minute crystal coating, mirror-image, roughly equal dimensions, well-formed, hair-like, layered, shapeless, roughly spherical, octahedral, feather-like, elongate, hexagonal, kidney-shaped, net-like, rose-like, wedge-shaped, cylindrical, star-like, surface growth lines, partially developed, flat, and resembling wheat sheaves.

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    18/04/2024

    CRYSTAL HABITS
    HABIT DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
    Acicular Needle-like, slender and/or Rutile in quartz
    tapered

    Amygdaloidal Almond-shaped Heulandite

    Anhedral Poorly formed, external crystal Olivine


    faces not developed

    Bladed Blade-like, slender and flattened Kyanite

    Botryoidal or Grape-like, hemispherical Smithsonite,Hemimorphit


    globular masses e,Adamite and Variscite

    Columnar Stout, column-like individuals Calcite

    Coxcomb Aggregated flaky or tabular Barite


    crystals closely spaced

    Dendritic or Tree-like, branching in one or Magnesite in opal


    arborescent more direction from central point
    18/04/2024

    CRYSTAL HABITS
    HABIT DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
    Dodecahedral Dodecahedron, 12-sided Garnet

    Drusy or Aggregate of minute crystals Uvarovite


    encrustation coating a surface

    Enantiomorphic Mirror-image habit and optical Quartz


    characteristics; right- and left-
    handed crystals
    Equant, stout, Length, width, and breadth Zircon
    stubby or blocky roughly equal

    Euhedral Well-formed, external crystal Spinel


    faces developed

    Fibrous or Extremely slender prisms Tremolite


    columnar

    Filiform or Hair-like or thread-like, Natrolite


    capillary extremely fine

    Foliated or Layered structure, parting into Mica


    micaceous thin sheets
    18/04/2024

    CRYSTAL HABITS
    HABIT DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
    Granular Aggregates of anhedral crystals Scheelite
    in matrix

    Hemimorphic Doubly terminated crystal with Hemimorphite


    two differently shaped ends

    Mamillary Breast-like: surface formed by Malachite


    intersecting partial spherical
    shapes
    Massive or Shapeless, no distinctive Serpentine
    compact external crystal shape

    Nodular or Deposit of roughly spherical Geodes


    tuberose form with irregular
    protuberances
    Octahedral Octahedron, eight-sided (two Diamond
    pyramids base to base)

    Plumose Fine, feather-like scales Mottramite

    Prismatic Elongate, prism-like: crystal Tourmaline


    faces parallel to c-axis well-
    developed
    18/04/2024

    CRYSTAL HABITS
    HABIT DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
    Pseudo- hexagonal appearance due to Aragonite
    hexagonal cyclic twinning

    Pseudomorphou Occurring in the shape of Tiger's eye


    s another mineral through
    pseudomorphous replacement
    Radiating or Radiating outward from a central Pyrite suns
    divergent point

    Reniform or Similar to mamillary: intersecting Hematite


    colloform kidney-shaped masses

    Reticulated Acicular crystals forming net-like Cerussite


    intergrowths

    Rosette Platy, radiating rose-like Gypsum


    aggregate

    Sphenoid Wedge-shaped Sphene

    Stalactitic Forming as stalactites or Rhodochrosite


    stalagmites: cylindrical or cone-
    shaped
    18/04/2024

    CRYSTAL HABITS
    HABIT DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
    Stellate Star-like, radiating Pyrophyllite

    Striated/striations Surface growth lines parallel or Chrysoberyl


    perpendicular to a
    crystallographic axis
    Subhedral External crystal faces only
    partially developed

    Tabular or Flat, tablet-shaped, prominent Ruby


    lamellar pinnacoid

    Wheat sheaf Aggregates resembling hand- Zeolites


    reaped wheat sheaves

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