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Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology 4e

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FIGURE 3.6 Cleavage in common minerals. Some minerals cleave in four or six directions, but it is rare to see all of them in a

single specimen.

Types of

cleavage Diagram Visual Examples

1 direction Muscovite

2 directions

at 90°

Potassium feldspar

2 directions

not at 90°

Amphibole

3 directions

at 90°

Halite

3 directions

not at 90°

Calcite

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