shonkinite
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Shonkin + -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana.
Noun
[edit]shonkinite (countable and uncountable, plural shonkinites)
- (mineralogy) A kind of mafic foidal syenite.