stalactitic texture

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A diagram displays illustrations of various common crystal aggregations and habits in minerals, including granular, lamellar, bladed, fibrous, acicular, radiating, dendritic, mammillated, colloform, stalactitic, geode, and oolitic forms, each labeled with mineral examples.

stalactitic texture

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Crystal habit and crystal aggregation
…botryoidal, reniform, and mammillary forms); stalactitic, pendant cylinders or cones resembling icicles; concentric, roughly spherical layers arranged about a common centre, as in agate and in geodes; geode, a partially filled rock cavity lined by mineral material (geodes may be banded as in agate owing to successive depositions of material,…
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…botryoidal, reniform, and mammillary forms); stalactitic, pendant cylinders or cones resembling icicles; concentric, roughly spherical layers arranged about a common centre, as in agate and in geodes; geode, a partially filled rock cavity lined by mineral material (geodes may be banded as in agate owing to successive depositions of material,…
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