Definitions
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- noun A sedimentary rock, usually limestone, consisting of ooliths that are cemented together.
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- noun geology A
rock consisting ofspherical grains within amineral cortex accreted around anucleus , often ofquartz grains. - noun countable, rare An
ooid oroolith .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Strang says he used natural materials to build the home, including oolite, a rock that came from the site itself.
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The skiff sped past another island, one of the maze of coral and oolite formed islands that comprised the Florida Keys.
The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003
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The skiff sped past another island, one of the maze of coral and oolite formed islands that comprised the Florida Keys.
The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003
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The skiff sped past another island, one of the maze of coral and oolite formed islands that comprised the Florida Keys.
The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003
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The skiff sped past another island, one of the maze of coral and oolite formed islands that comprised the Florida Keys.
The Second Time Janet Dailey 2003
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Northampton sand, the lowest layer of the oolite, and lying immediately above the upper lias. {85b}
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Woodhall water comes from the “inferior oolite” which comprises the
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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He gives a very interesting coloured section, showing these different strata, where the springs arise beneath the oolite; then the ferruginous gravels, the clunch clay, and the lias underlaying all.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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The bowl is, like other early fonts, rather tub-shaped, made of coarse-grained oolite, a Cotswold district stone, covered with uncommon ornamentation.
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Great and inferior oolite limestones, and sandy beds 18
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various
avivamagnolia commented on the word oolite
~ A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish.
~ Rock composed of small concretions, usually of calcium carbonate, containing a nucleus and clearly defined concentric shells.
~ Oolite sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. In the British Isles oolitic limestone is characteristic of the middle and upper Jurassic
~ Origin: German ~ An egg.
January 18, 2009