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From Shonkin + -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
shonkinite
Today it means: A kind of mafic foidal syenite. Full definition →
Today it means: A kind of mafic foidal syenite. Full definition →
From Shonkin + -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.