Definition of Pisoliths

1. pisolith [n] - See also: pisolith

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pisoliths

pishogues
pishu
pisiform
pisiform bone
pisiforms
pisketti
piskies
pisky
pismires
piso
pisohamate ligament
pisolite
pisolites
pisolith
pisoliths (current term)
pisolitic
pisometacarpal ligament
pisonia
pisonias
pisos
pisotriquetral joint
pisounciform ligament
pisouncinate ligament

Literary usage of Pisoliths

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"The rock is hard, of cuboidal fracture, oolitic with some pisoliths and moreover the fossils were preserved often or perhaps always as nuclei of large ..."

2. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"Carbonate rocks containing non-vadose pisoliths and algal ... or pisoliths. The resulting rock names would be ..."

3. The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton by Isabel Burton (1893)
"... ferruginous and crystalline sandstone produce? micaceous iron ores, small globular stones (pisoliths'(}, and almost invariably fragments of iron oxide. ..."

4. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1876)
"... ferruginous and crystalline sandstone produces micaceous iron ores, small globular stones (pisoliths ?), and almost invariably fragments of iron oxide. ..."

5. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1902)
"The rock is hard, of cuboidal fracture, oolitic with some pisoliths and moreover the fossils were preserved often or perhaps always as nuclei of large ..."

6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"Carbonate rocks containing non-vadose pisoliths and algal ... or pisoliths. The resulting rock names would be ..."

7. The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton by Isabel Burton (1893)
"... ferruginous and crystalline sandstone produce? micaceous iron ores, small globular stones (pisoliths'(}, and almost invariably fragments of iron oxide. ..."

8. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1876)
"... ferruginous and crystalline sandstone produces micaceous iron ores, small globular stones (pisoliths ?), and almost invariably fragments of iron oxide. ..."

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