Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Rock, usually limestone, composed of pisoliths.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Limestone having an oö˙litic structure, in which the individual grains or globules are as large as peas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also
peastone ,peagrit .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A
sedimentary rock formed from pisoliths
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The limestone rock was chiefly a blue pisolite conglomerate, with veins and crystals of white carbonate of lime, seams of shale, and iron pyrites.
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The bauxite-types encountered in Tasmania range in nature from pisolite-capped bauxite through to amorphous tabular bauxite but extend over considerable distances across central Tasmania.
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The bauxite-types encountered in Tasmania range in nature from pisolite-capped bauxite through to amorphous tabular bauxite but extend over considerable distances across central Tasmania.
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The bauxite-types encountered in Tasmania range in nature from pisolite-capped bauxite through to amorphous tabular bauxite but extend over considerable distances across central Tasmania.
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The bauxite-types encountered in Tasmania range in nature from pisolite-capped bauxite through to amorphous tabular bauxite but extend over considerable distances across central Tasmania.
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It will sustain production of the sought-after Robe Valley pisolite ore at 32 million tonnes per annum as production from the Mesa J deposit decreases.
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It will sustain production of the sought-after Robe Valley pisolite ore at 32 million tons per annum as production from the Mesa J deposit decreases.
IOL: News 2010
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The bauxite-types encountered in Tasmania range in nature from pisolite-capped bauxite through to amorphous tabular bauxite but extend over considerable distances across central Tasmania.
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It will sustain production of the sought-after Robe Valley pisolite ore at 32 million tons per annum as production from the Mesa J deposit decreases.
IOL: News 2010
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The bauxite-types encountered in Tasmania range in nature from pisolite-capped bauxite through to amorphous tabular bauxite but extend over considerable distances across central Tasmania.
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