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单词 catlinite
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catliniten.

Etymology: Named by C. T. Jackson, 1839, after George Catlin, the famous delineator of the American Indians.
Mineralogy.
The sacred pipe-stone of the American Indians, a kind of indurated red clay occurring in a bed of considerable extent in the region of the Upper Missouri, referred by Hayden to the Cretaceous formation. (Dana.)
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > suitable for pipes
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pipestone1804
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catlinite1858
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1858 J. D. Dana Min. 252.
1883 Barter in Amer. Naturalist July Catlinite: its antiquity as a material for Tobacco pipes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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