Mineral: Fluorapatite
Locality: Huron River, Ohio, USA
Dimensions: 1 mm crystal

Description: Unusual sector zonation revealed by crossed polarizers and a gypsum plate. Different colors represent different optical orientations within the crystal, aligned with different growth sectors. (This is not supposed to happen!) One half of a platy hexagonal crystal is shown.

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