Geology Home Page
MINERALS and CRYSTALS
Roger Weller,
geology instructor
wellerr@cochise.edu
copyright 2018-R.Weller
last edited: 3/22/18 number of
illustrations: 394
fluorite- octahedron crystal
index for photos of crystals
and wood models
Overview of Crystallography
Isometric System
Tetragonal System
Orthorhombic System
Monoclinic System
Triclinic System
Hexagonal-Trigonal System
Twinned Crystals
and
Drawings of Twinned Crystals
references
Instructions on How to Grow
Crystals-by
Roger Weller
Systematic Mineralogy Textbook, 1881
by Hilary Bauerman, 383 pages
contains sections on
crystallography plus cleavage, hardness, etc.
octahedron model
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