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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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KENTALLENITE. Geol. A group of igneous rocks of olivine, augite, biotite, plagioclase and orthoclase (1900 Quarterly Jnl. Geol. Soc. LVI. 531).
[Named by J. B. Hill and K. Kynaston from Kentallen, Argyll.]
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