The flora of the oolite was peculiarly a flora of intermediate forms.
This is an excellent variety of oolite of light cream color.
It commences in the oolite, and terminates in the next formation.
The Plaine, resting on oolite limestone, is treeless but fertile.
These were shown to be as old at least as the oolite and lias.
The examples of mammalia, above alluded to, are confined to the Trias and the oolite.
And the first known bird only makes its appearance in the oolite, about half-way through that latest period.
The oolite limestone beds consist of white soft limestones, having at intervals bands of marly clay.
Lincoln itself stands on Lias beds, with a capping of the lower oolite limestone.
That part of the cliffs which consist of lias, the oolite series, and chalk, decays slowly.
