Cleavage and fracture « KaiserScience

Cleavage and fracture « KaiserScience

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Many forces can act on tectonic plates, on mountains, even on individual rocks. Those rocks usually stay together as one piece, because the atoms and molecules are holding each other with strong bonds. If a force becomes stronger than the bonds holding the rock together then the rock breaks apart. It will cleave or fracture.…

Chrysotile - USGS Mineral Specimens 302 - PICRYL - Public Domain