torbanite

Significado (Inglés)

A variety of coal, derived from colonial algae, that resembles carbonaceous shale.

Sinónimos

schist

shale

shiver

bitumenite

cleaving stone

lump coal

kerosine shale

boghead-cannel

shale rock

Etimología (Inglés)

From Torbane + -ite, after Torbane Hill near Bathgate in Scotland, its main location of occurrence.