Podiform
Podiform means to be shaped or to gather in pods. This is relevant to vegetables such as pea-pods but also to metal ores and mining, for example the way chromium or chromite might be found in the ground and mined. Other ore configurations might be tabular ores, which are linear formed along veins, cracks, layers, sediments or fractures. Stratiform are similar but along strata and cylindrical ores which are formed in tubes or chimneys in the ground.
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