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kentallenite Petrogr.|kɛnˈtælɪnaɪt| [f. Kentallen, name of a village in Strathclyde (formerly in Argyllshire) + -ite1.] An olivine-bearing monzonite.
1900Hill & Kynaston in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LVI. 532 Taking..the Kentallen rock as our type, we propose that the term kentallenite should be substituted for olivine-monzonite. Kentallenite may be briefly defined as a coarse or medium-grained holocrystalline rock, consisting of olivine and augite, with orthoclase, plagioclase, and biotite in varying proportions. 1960E. B. Bailey et al. Geol. Ben Nevis & Glen Coe (ed. 2) xv. 192 The handsome black kentallenite, once worked as an ornamental stone, is pierced by a few white felspathic segregations. 1969Scottish Jrnl. Geol. V. 11 Kentallenite is a pyroxenic member of the dominantly hornblendic Appinite Suite..of the British Caledonian calc-alkaline igneous province. |