Marcasite. Ashover, South Pennines, Britain




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250µm


An intergrowth of marcasite crystals shows their extreme anisotropy, variation in grain size, and twinning along (101) as coarse single twins (top left) and as polysynthetic twinning (centre left).


Polished block, plane polarized light, x 80, air



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