“…For the tabular hematite morphology, preferential chemical etching at structurally defective locations on the basal plane and a "center-outward" progression of dissolution has already been demonstrated previously (Schwertmann and Cornell, 1991;Cornell and Giovanoli, 1993). Likewise, dislocation networks forming misfit boundaries have been shown to possess hexagonal symmetry parallel to the c-axis in hematite (Tietz and Carter, 1993), providing the only reasonable explanation for the striking, structurally controlled, linear dissolution channels radiating outward from the growth centers (e.g., Fig. 4b).…”