Who doesn’t love the variety of shapes and beauty of rocks and crystals? Well, obviously you do, if you are here visiting our website!!
I’m always researching and learning about how rocks form, what makes minerals distinct from one another, and interesting tips to identifying pesky rocks I’ve collected but just can’t figure our what they are!
We are all about educating here at DGMS, so we thought we’d share some interesting facts about one aspect of rock identification – CRYSTAL HABIT!!
In mineralogy, crystal habit is the characteristic external shape of an individual crystal or crystal group. A single crystal’s habit is a description of its general shape and its crystallographic forms, plus how well developed each form is.
All photos are from my personal collection and all descriptions are from
www.Geology.com