oolites

-- Artificial production of calcareous pisolites and oolites.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various

It is hardly necessary to dwell upon the possible geological applications of this mode of forming calcareous oolites and pisolites.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Various

At Bayeux, the type district, they are ferruginous oolites; in the Jura and Lorraine a coral limestone overlies a crinoidal variety; calcareous sandy and marly beds occur in Maine and Anjou; in

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Rich lowlands and oolites suit the cereals; red marl produces wonderful grazing grass; bare uplands are best for gorse and heather.

Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

We have got off the oolites on to what is called the Oxford clay; and then, I believe, on to the Coral rag, and on that again lies what we are coming to now.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

Now we shall run down hill for many a mile, down the back of the oolites, past pretty Chippenham, and

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

Then that is the lowest layer of a fresh world, so to speak; a world still younger than the oolites -- the chalk world.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847

A soft shelly limestone, most probably of recent origin though slightly resembling some of the oolites of England, occurs extensively on the southern coast between Cape Northumberland and Portland bay where it forms the only rock with the exception of amygdaloidal trap.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

(Productus aculeatus). (c) Variegated sandstone (bunter sandstein) with frequent beds of limestone; false oolites; the upper beds are of variegated marl, often muriatiferous (red marl, salzthon) with hydrated gypsum and fetid limestone.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Among these, are different species of oolites marble, some shell marbles, and some composed of a chalky substance, or of undistinguishable parts.

Theory of the Earth~ Part 2 (historical) 1788