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THE name ‘bauchite’ is proposed for a coarse plutonic fayalite-bearing rock which was first described by me from Bauchi in northern Nigeria1. I share the reluctance of modern petrologists to propose new variety names for rocks. There are, however, cases in which a variety name is justifiable to imply a significant physical, chemical or petrological characteristic not adequately conveyed by the general or group name. The case of charnockite is an example: to have simply described a charnockite as a hypersthene granite would never have conveyed the petrological peculiarities of the rock.
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OYAWOYE, M. Bauchite : a New Variety in the Quartz Monzonitic Series. Nature 205, 689 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/205689a0
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