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What does pitchstone mean?

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Noun
  1. (geology) a natural glass, rich in microscopic crystallites, formed by the rapid cooling of lava or magma
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And she mighty near rolled off down into pitchstone Canyon, comin' up by the cut-off trail.
The lavas comprise dark pitchstone, resembling that at Kirk Yetholm, and porphyritic and amygdaloidal andesites and basalts.
Similarly, Arran pitchstone has turned up in Ireland and Orkney, highlighting the complex exchange networks between these places.
In the south of the island there are sills and dykes of felsite, quartz-porphyry, rhyolite, trachyte and pitchstone.
I have brought from that locality a single specimen of pitchstone, perfectly resinous, bleak and shining.
I had never seen him look as he did now, not even in pitchstone Canyon when we came upon the bodies of Hank and his wife.

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