hislopite Min.
(ˈhɪzləpaɪt)
[f. the name of the Rev. Stephen Hislop (1817–63), Scottish missionary and naturalist: see -ite1.]
An Indian variety of calcite coloured green by the presence of glauconite.
| 1859 S. Haughton in Phil. Mag. XVII. 18, I propose to give the name of Hislopite to the remarkable combination of Calc-spar and Glauconite found by him [sc. Mr. Hislop] at Nágpur. 1893 Rec. Geol. Surv. India XXVI. 171 The name hislopite loses its specific value when the variation of the included so-called glauconite is..so great as the foregoing results show. |