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Webster 1913 Edition
Oolite
O′o-lite
,Noun.
[Gr.
ω,ὄν
an egg + -lite
: cf. F. ooithe
. So named from its resemblance to the roe of fish.] (Geol.)
A variety of limestone, consisting of small round grains, resembling the roe of a fish. It sometimes constitutes extensive beds, as in the European Jurassic. See the Chart of
Geology
. Webster 1828 Edition
Oolite
O'OLITE
,Noun.
Egg-stone, a variety of concreted carbonate of lime; oviform limestone.
Definition 2024
oolite
oolite
See also: oölite
English
Noun
oolite (countable and uncountable, plural oolites)
- (geology) A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 170:
- Here and there are beds of oolites, for example, made of little rounded grains – like millet seed – that form only in agitated warm waters, such as you might find off the Bahamas today.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 170:
- (countable, rare) An ooid or oolith.
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geology: rock of spherical grains
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ooid or olith
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