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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

Indeed, if it came to tonnage, I believe a good blubbery right-whale could easily give points to any deinosaur that ever moved upon oolitic continents.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant

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 Palmer, Edward

I recognised them at once as the palatal teeth of a fossil fish called "Lepidotus," common in our own oolitic and wealden strata, and in rocks of that age all over the world.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir