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Slickens [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

Slickensides [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A name which workmen give to a variety of galena in Derbyshire.

Slickensides [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

2. A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England.