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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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LEDMORITE. Geol. A variety of melanite-augite-nepheline-syenite, resembling borolanite (1910 Trans. Edb. Geol. Soc. IX. 384).
[Named by S. J. Shand from Ledmore River in Sutherland.]
