oolite
noun
a limestone composed of minute rounded concretions resembling fish roe, in some places altered to ironstone by replacement with iron oxide.
oolitic
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a word derived from
oolite.
Example Sentences
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“Will — er, did he fall among the hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone? Or wander upon some plesiosaurus-haunted oolitic coral reef?”
From Nature ● Jun. 16, 2020
Veit, a suburb of Vienna, on an oolitic cliff, a terraced settlement of an early Indo-Germanic tribe, dated at perhaps 2500 B. C., was discovered by an expedition directed by Professor Joseph Bayer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Byzantine coinage of Cyprus was, of course, well known to him while he had himself worked on the oolitic foraminifera of the blue marl at Biarritz.
From The Book-Hunter at Home by P. B. M. Allan
Fossil Neuroptera occur in the Devonian rocks of North America; the first traces of insects allied to the bees and wasps being geologically more recent, and appearing in the oolitic strata.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by David Starr Jordan
Westward from the Dividing Range, “Desert Sandstone” and the cretaceous and oolitic groups alternate one with the other to the extreme limit of the colony.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer
