Designating a type of fossilized resin found in London Clay strata. Cf. copalite, n.

= anthraconite, n.

A fossil resin of pale yellow colour.

A mineral resin occurring in white crystalline scales on fossil pine wood.

A mineral resin occurring in bituminous coal, having a greasy lustre, and becoming soft and tenacious when heated.

A mineral resin found in fossil pine wood.

a white crystalline resin obtained from fossil pinewood.

Any of a large group of fossil resins occurring in deposits of lignite, peat, etc., and (unlike Baltic amber) containing little or no succinic acid.

A variety of fossil resin or retinite occurring in coal deposits.

= kauri gum n.

A resinous hydrocarbon containing sulphur, occurring in reddish-brown scales on the Mersey river, Tasmania.

the fossil resin of kauri, used as a varnish (cf. dammar, n.), and obtained in quantities by digging where the trees have formerly grown.

= xyloretin n.

A yellowish fossil resin occurring in lignite in the cretaceous strata of New Mexico.

A resinous hydrocarbon mineral found in the Ione valley, California.

An opaque, yellow resinous variety of retinite found in coal-beds in Moravia, in the Czech Republic.