shonkinite

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noun

A kind of mafic foidal syenite.

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Meanings

nounshonkinite (countable and uncountable, plural shonkinites)

plural shonkinites

  1. countableuncountablechemistryA kind of mafic foidal syenite.

    Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.

    1954, J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernadino County, California, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 261, page 22

Origin

From Shonkin + -ite, after the type locality at Shonkin Sag in the Highwood Mountains of north-central Montana.

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