Definitions
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- noun A form of
asphalt from the Uintah Basin ofUtah .
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Examples
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Asphalts and bitumens include a wide variety of hydrocarbon materials, such as gilsonite, grahamite, elaterite, ozokerite, etc., which are used for somewhat different purposes.
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I felt a sudden flush and the child in my womb moved, stirred by the earth, the blood-red clay, Southern dirt laden with maltha, gilsonite and iron, feeding the unspeakable hunger.
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001
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I felt a sudden flush and the child in my womb moved, stirred by the earth, the blood-red clay, Southern dirt laden with maltha, gilsonite and iron, feeding the unspeakable hunger.
Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001
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There may be some confusion in the identification of items listed by archaeologists as jet, lignite, and gilsonite.
Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937
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It appears that a very valuable deposit of gilsonite or asphaltum has been found on the reservation in Utah occupied by the Uncompahgre Ute
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland Grover Cleveland 1872
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The facts, as I am advised, are that upon these lands there are veins or beds of asphaltum or gilsonite supposed to be of very great value.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison Benjamin Harrison 1867
Arvesse commented on the word gilsonite
The black, glassy residue left after oil has been cooked past tar, left in place in fractures.
December 15, 2010