zone axis

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 261 words | Copyright

zone axis An axis of a crystal, which normally passes through the centre of the crystal and may or may not be parallel to the crystallographic axes, but which is parallel to the edges of crystal faces that meet in a zone, so those edges may be rotated about it.

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