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Grainy rock
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oolite
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Oolite ( egg stone ) is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids , spherical grains composed of concentric layers. The name derives from the Ancient Greek word ᾠόν for egg . Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 mm; rocks composed of ooids larger ...
Usage examples of oolite.
Record in Oolite of Fear, whose, and how much, and of how a Village broke in two.
They passed from the district of chalk, successively into the districts of clay, of sand-rock, of oolite, and so forth.
The pavement is of fine oolite, or skylight, or some other stone of that geologic period, and is laid almost flat on the ground, in places.
In the Oolite System, mostly consisting of calcareous beds, mammals make their appearance.
The boat idled down an oolite canal cut through Ramrod and docked behind the Looe Key Reef Resort.
Line yet attempted, in America, where undertakings of its scale are possible, astronomically precise, carefully set prisms of Oolite, the Master-valve of rose Quartz, at the eastern Terminus.