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- noun Canada A
dolomitic limestone quarried in the vicinity of Tyndall, Manitoba, Canada, famous for its pervasivemottling and numerousfossils .
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After the town of Tyndall, Manitoba, where the stone is quarried, in turn named after Irish physicist John Tyndall (1820–93). Tyndall, Tindall ("inhabitant of the Tyne river valley") < Tyne.
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