Conchiodal/Subconchoidal

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I understand that conchiodal is the fracture that is curvered but i don't understad the difference between that and subconchiodal?

-- Amanda Fields (fields@oswego.edu), February 13, 2001

Answers

On the minerals lab backgrounder it talks about fracture. It says that subconchoidial fractures have a rounded breakage surface, and that conchoidial fractures have a rounded breakage surface with faint, concentric striations on it.

-- Hannah VanDam (petunia130@hotmail.com), February 13, 2001.

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