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Mica fish

roughly fish-shaped mica crystal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2023
Entity authorityQ6827840 ↗
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Mica fish are lenticular, elongate lozenge, parallelogram-shaped, or lens-shaped (roughly fish-shaped) single mica crystals that are often used as shear sense indicators. They commonly occur in micaceous quartzitic mylonites. They characteristically lie with their longest dimension at a small angle to the mylonitic foliation.

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“Mica fish” enters the record as roughly fish-shaped mica crystal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mica, fish and roughly can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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