Graphite Crystals with Growth Spirals
From Crestmore quarry, Riverside County, California

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Large stepped-terraces and associated rounded growth spirals on a 0.8-mm graphite crystal.
Images are taken with Nomarski Differential Ineterference Contrast microscopy.

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