biotite

March 19, 2019 9:49 am Published by

A flakey, brownish-black mineral in the mica family found in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Contains iron and magnesium. (Mica minerals grow in flat, plate-shaped crystals that are responsible for the layered schistose texture, or schistocity, of metamorphic rocks such as schist)

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