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caltonite (cal'-to-nite). A dark-colored analcime-bearing basanite that contains microphenocrysts of olivine and clinopyroxene in a trachytic groundmass composed of feldspar laths, clinopyroxene, iron oxides, and analcime. It was named by Johannsen (1931) for Calton Hill, Derbyshire, England. Obsolete.