ozarkite
See also: Ozarkite
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFirst named in print by Charles Upham Shepard in 1846, after The Ozarks, Missouri, although it was from the region of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Noun
editozarkite (plural ozarkites)
- (mineralogy) Thomsonite, a mineral series of the zeolite group.
- (mineralogy, archaic) The mineral mozarkite of the Missouri, Ozark region.
References
edit- 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.