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
I should not look for any species, scarcely even any genus, to be perpetuated from the oolitic period to the present.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by H. W. (Henry William) Lee
The Bajocian rocks of Europe are mostly limestones of various kinds, very frequently oolitic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
It is also remarkable that the animals of the oolitic system are entirely different in species from those of the preceding age, and that these species cease before the next.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
