Usually means: Oil shale found in Tasmania.
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noun:  a sedimentary rock type almost entirely consisting of the prasinophyte alga Tasmanites.
noun:  tektites found in Tasmania, a regional form of australite, the most common type of tektite, glass of meteorite origin, traditionally named for its geographic location.
noun:  Tasmanite, or Tasmanian amber (in the original sense of the word: “discovered in Tasmania”) — a rare regional mineraloid, a brownish-reddish fossilized organic resin from the island of Tasmania, formed in some deposits of the parent rock (tasmanite shale) and known by the same name: tasmanite.F. Yu.


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