- A
lath or slat is a thin,
narrow strip of straight-grained wood used
under roof
shingles or tiles, on
lath and
plaster walls and
ceilings to hold plaster...
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third direction is poor). It
occurs as clear,
white to gray,
blocky to
lath shaped grains in
common mafic igneous rocks such as
basalt and gabbro, as well...
- 409 [Å]; Z = 1
Identification Color light blue, dark blue
Crystal habit Lath shaped crystals,
rounded grains Cleavage Perfect {1010}
Fracture Conchoidal...
- the
Kipawa Alkaline Complex, Quebec, Canada,
where it
occurs as
tabular laths in
pegmatite lenses.
Other localities include Murmansk Oblast, Russia, Dara-i-Pioz...
- diorite.
Diabase normally has a fine but
visible texture of
euhedral lath-
shaped plagioclase crystals (62%) set in a
finer matrix of clinopyroxene, typically...
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stringers and veinlets. When
coupled with umangite, the
mineral forms lath-
shaped slender and
elongated grains averaging 20 by 50 micrometers. Athabascaite...
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tangled mats
known as
mountain leather. Individual,
small crystals are
lath-
shaped Cleavage Distinct/good, good on {110}
Tenacity Tough Mohs
scale hardness...
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Identification Color Gray, dark red-brown in
transmitted light Crystal habit Lath shaped grains generally found as
inclusions in
other minerals or interstitial...
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plumose skeleton crystals of augite. Many
volcanic rocks have
small lath-
shaped crystals of
feldspar or
augite diverging from a
common center. Wikimedia...
- of two morphologies: ones with
small rodlike fibrils and
others with
lath-
shaped crystals. The
fibrillar structure of wood is said to play a significant...
