Calcite Photos  
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Roger Weller, geology instructor

wellerr@cochise.edu    copyright 2008-R.Weller

 
calcite cleavage
Mexico
Calcite has three directions of cleavage.  The cleavage directions are not at right
angles to each other, like salt, but are inclined.  The resultant shape produced by the
cleavage of calcite is called a rhombohedron.
 

calcite
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Just credit photo to R.Weller/Cochise College.