Min. [Named by C. T. Jackson, 1839, after Geo. Catlin, the famous delineator of the American Indians.] The sacred pipe-stone of the American Indians, a kind of indurated red clay occurring in a bed of considerable extent in the region of the Upper Missouri, referred by Hayden to the Cretaceous formation. (Dana.)
1858. Dana, Min., 252.
1883. E. A. Barber in Amer. Naturalist, July, 745. Catlinite. Its Antiquity as a Material for Tobacco Pipes.
