ozarkite

See also: Ozarkite

English

ozarkite (Thomsonite), 4.4 x 3.1 cm. Photograph by Rob Lavinsky

Alternative forms

• Ozarkite

Etymology

First named in print by Charles Upham Shepard in 1846, after The Ozarks, Missouri, although it was from the region of Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Noun

ozarkite (plural ozarkites)

1. (mineralogy) Thomsonite, a mineral series of the zeolite group.
2. (mineralogy, archaic) The mineral mozarkite of the Missouri, Ozark region.

References

• Annual report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas, by the Geological Survey of Arkansas, Arkansas State Geologist, 1891, page 221.[1]
• Ozarkite/mozarkite, in Agate Lexicon and Glossary of Agate, Jasper, Opal and other Amorphous, Cryptocrystalline, or Spherulitic Forms of Gem Silicon Dioxide, as of September 10, 2007[2]
• Ozarkite, in Minerals of Arkansas, by Arkansas Bureau of Mines, Manufactures and Agriculture, Arkansas, 1925, page 85.