itacolumiten.
/ɪtəˈkɒljuːmʌɪt/ Mineralogy.
A granular, quartzose, talcomicaceous slate, sometimes flexible in thin slabs.
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1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. §88. 83 Itacolumite, a schistose quartz rock, consisting of quartz grains with talc or mica.
1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 22 The diamond appears generally to occur in regions that afford a laminated granular quartz rock, called itacolumite, which pertains to the talcose series, and which in thin slabs is more or less flexible.
1878 P. H. Lawrence tr. B. von Cotta Rocks Classified (new ed.) 240 In the Brazils itacolumite forms whole systems of strata of great thickness.
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