释义 |
catlinite Min. [Named by C. T. Jackson, 1839, after Geo. Catlin, the famous delineator of the American Indians.] The sacred pipe-stone of the American Indians, a kind of indurated red clay occurring in a bed of considerable extent in the region of the Upper Missouri, referred by Hayden to the Cretaceous formation. (Dana.)
1858Dana Min. 252. 1883 Barter in Amer. Naturalist July, Catlinite: its antiquity as a material for Tobacco pipes. |