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The inorganic formation of dolomite alone is too inefficient to explain the importance of dolomitic rocks in the stratigraphic record.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2012

It cuts through granite and quartz, along fault lines and beneath a sugarlike layer of dolomitic marble—a sand trap to anything going through it.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2008

It was carefully studied with a 6 1/4 inch Cooke-achromatic by the late Professor Phillips, the geologist, who compared it to the dolomitic or trachytic mountains of the earth.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

When the elements named are present in large amount we have the varieties dolomitic calcite, baricalcite, strontianocalcite, ferrocalcite, manganocalcite, zincocalcite and plumbocalcite, respectively.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

It is said that the dolomitic city owes its name, Montpellier-le-Vieux, to the shepherds of Lower Languedoc, who from time immemorial have brought their flocks in summer to pasture upon these highlands.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Barker, Edward Harrison