Morion (other)
Morion may refer to: * Morion (helmet), a type of military helmet * Morion (mineral), a variety of smoky quartz * ''Morion'' (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal ...

Morion (helmet)
A morion (Spanish language, Spanish: ''morrión'') (Catalan language, Catalan: ''morrió'') is a type of open-faced combat helmet originally from Spain, used from the beginning of the 16th century to the early-17th century. The morion usually had a flat brim and a crest running from front to back. Its introduction was contemporaneous with European exploration of much of North, Central and South America - explorers such as Hernando de Soto and Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Coronado may have supplied morions to their foot-soldiers in the 1540s. History The iconic morion, though popularly identified with early Kingdom of Castile, Castilian explorers and conquistadors, was not in use until after the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés or Francisco Pizarro, Francisco Pizarro's Conquest of the Inca Empire, conquest of the Incas in South America. It was widely used by the Spanish, but thirty to forty years later was also common among foot soldiers of many other European nationalit ...
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Morion (mineral)
Smoky quartz is a brownish grey, translucent variety of quartz that ranges in clarity from almost complete transparency to an almost-opaque brownish-gray or black crystals. The color of smoky quartz is produced when natural radiation, emitted from the surrounding rock, activates color centers around aluminum impurities within the crystalline quartz. Varieties Morion is a very dark brown to black opaque variety. Morion is the German, Danish, Spanish and Polish synonym for smoky quartz. The name is from a misreading of ''mormorion'' in Pliny the Elder. Cairngorm is a variety of smoky quartz found in the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. It usually has a smoky yellow-brown colour, though some specimens are greyish-brown. It is used in Scottish jewellery and as a decoration on kilt pins and the handles of (anglicised: '' sgian-dubhs'' or ''skean dhu''). The largest known cairngorm crystal is a specimen kept at Braemar Castle. Uses Smoky quartz is common and was not historic ...
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Morion (beetle)
''Morion'' is a genus of in the beetle family Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal .... There are more than 40 described species in ''Morion''. Species These 41 species belong to the genus ''Morion'': * '' Morion angustus'' Chaudoir, 1880 (Philippines) * '' Morion aridus'' Allen, 1969 (the United States) * '' Morion attenuatus'' Barker, 1922 (Africa) * '' Morion australis'' Laporte, 1867 (Australia) * '' Morion baloghi'' Horvatovich, 1976 (New Guinea) * '' Morion biroi'' Horvatovich, 1976 (New Guinea) * '' Morion bithynicus'' Schauberger, 1925 (Turkey) * '' Morion boliviensis'' Allen, 1969 (Bolivia) * '' Morion boninensis'' Kasahara & Satô, 1990 (Japan) * '' Morion brasiliensis'' Dejean, 1825 (Brazil) * '' Morion brevior'' Putzeys, 1873 (Indonesia ...
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