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Webster 1913 Edition


Thinolite

Thin′o-lite

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], shore +
-lite
.]
(Min.)
A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.

Definition 2024


thinolite

thinolite

English

Noun

thinolite (usually uncountable, plural thinolites)

  1. (mineralogy) A calcareous tufa, partly crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.