dolomitic
- a word derived from dolomite.
Example Sentences
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It also has a smaller and highly profitable specialty-materials business that makes products including dolomitic lime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
At some points, also, it becomes dolomitic, and filled with small veins of carbonate of iron, and spots of red iron-ore.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
The great geological feature of the island is the profusion of gneiss, overlaid in many places in the interior by extensive beds of dolomitic limestone.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
