oolite
oolite
Definition
oolite (ō′ō līt′, ō′ə-)
o′olit′ic (--lit′ik) adjective
oolite
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: Principal Inclusions Rounded limestone ( including oolite ), sparse rounded quartz and red iron ore.
Adjective modifier
- Jurassic: Downing College [ 2 ] is mostly built of the Jurassic oolite from Ketton.
- inferior: This small cutting has good exposures of inferior Oolite.
- great: Petrography Elm Park Stone is an oolitic limestone from the Great Oolite of middle Jurassic age.
Modifies a noun
- rubble: The walling is mostly of oolite rubble and red brick, either set randomly or in herringbone courses.
- dressing: On the right is the 17th century red brickwork and oolite dressings of St. Catherine's College [ 13 ] .
- rock: Particularly distinctive are the oolite rocks that are made up of many millions of tiny bead shaped grains of limestone.
