Pseudohexagonal fluorite penetration twin of cube-octahedra, 11 cm. Erongo, Namibia. photo

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26-JUN-2013

Pseudohexagonal fluorite penetration twin of cube-octahedra, 11 cm. Erongo, Namibia.

The purple rectangular faces represent a dodecahedron and separate adjacent octahedron faces.

Published (Figure 14) in The Mineralogical Record, volume 52, March-April 2021. Smith & Holtkamp, Twinning in Fluorite Crystals.

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