Fractures occurring in shocked minerals as multiple sets of planar fissures parallel to rational crystallographic planes, which are usually not observed as cleavage planes under normal geological (non-shock) conditions.
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Fractures occurring in shocked minerals as multiple sets of planar fissures parallel to rational crystallographic planes, which are usually not observed as cleavage planes under normal geological (non-shock) conditions.