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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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CRINANITE. Geol. A variety of olivine-analcite-dolerite (1911 Mem. Geol. Surv. Scot. (Colonsay) 35).
[Named by J. S. Flett from Loch Crinan, Argyll.]
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