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Crystal Growth – Fast and Slow Peter J. Heaney Department of Geosciences Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 peter@geo.princeton.edu Background Mineral shapes and sizes are spectacularly diverse, and the means by which depositional environments control crystal morphologies remains an exciting area of research. Some minerals never achieve crystal sizes beyond a micron (e.g., kaolinite, many Mn oxides), whereas others can grow as single crystals that weigh several tons and extend many meters from tip to toe?(e.g., quartz, feldspar). Likewise, some minerals nearly always exhibit th