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Definition of Ooliths
1. oolith [n] - See also: oolith
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ooliths
Literary usage of Ooliths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1908)
"The globule« • ' result from the molecular concentration of carbonate of lime a-
the eggs have the morphological characters of ooliths. ..."
2. Bulletin by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (1904)
"... former mineral usually occurring as ooliths and particles in the matrix, and
the latter, whilst present as green ooliths in a few thin bands, ..."
3. Annual Report for ... with Accompanying Papers by Iowa Geological Survey (1899)
"Drift, with gravel and rotten bowlders 1-2 5. Traces of ferruginous sandstone 1 4.
Oolite; the ooliths fewer, irregular, uneven: the rock crystalline 2 , 3. ..."
4. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist, Wisconsin Geological Survey (1877)
"The ooliths are generally darker than the mass of the rock, and the larger ones
are seldom perfectly spherical, but incline to the forms usually assumed by ..."
5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1901)
"... on the borders of the basin, ancl the interstices were filled by minute ooliths
formed in a similar manner or by the flocculent precipitate itself. ..."
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