Aragonite Photos 
Cochise College               
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

wellerr@cochise.edu     copyright 2008-R.Weller 

 
hexagonal pseudomorphs after aragonite-2
These apparently hexagonal plates originally started out as complex twins of
aragonite crystals, but have since been converted to calcite.  The re-entrant angles
on some of the hexagonal sides show that the original crystals were really not a
hexagonal mineral.
 

aragonite
Photo is copyright free for non-commercial educational uses.
Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College.