Oolite or oölite (from Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión) 'egg stone') is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. Strictly...
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Oolite is a free and open source 3D space trading and combat simulator "in the spirit of" Elite, a similar game published in the 1980s. The name is a contraction...
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The Great Oolite Group is a Middle Jurassic stratigraphic unit that outcrops in southern England. It consists of a complex set of marine deposits primarily...
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Inferior Oolite is a sequence of Jurassic age sedimentary rocks in Europe. It was deposited during the Middle Jurassic. The Inferior Oolite Group as more...
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Coral Castle is an oolite limestone structure created by the Latvian-American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951). It comprises numerous large stones...
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Miami Limestone (redirect from Miami Oolite)
The Miami Limestone, originally called Miami Oolite, is a geologic formation of limestone in southeastern Florida. Miami Limestone forms the Atlantic Coastal...
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The Malton Oolite is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period. Earth sciences portal England portal Paleontology...
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The Coralline Oolite Formation is a limestone formation of Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) age, found in the Cleveland Basin of North Yorkshire, England. The...
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grains can be cemented together to form a sedimentary rock called an oolite. Oolites usually consist of calcium carbonate; these belong to the limestone...
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The Berkshire Oolite is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period. Earth sciences portal England portal...
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The Osmington Oolite is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period. Earth sciences portal England portal...
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Hunts Bay Oolite is an oolitic Carboniferous limestone geological formation found in the south Wales region. It is named after Hunts Bay on the Gower peninsula...
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is called an oolite or sometimes an oolitic limestone. Ooids form in high-energy environments, such as the Bahama platform, and oolites typically show...
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The Oolite Blanche is a geologic formation in France. It preserves fossils dating back to the Jurassic period. Earth sciences portal France portal Paleontology...
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occur in the Gilwern oolite which is located below the Llanelly Formation. The resurgences from the cave all occur in this oolite layer or the shales just...
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Look up oolitic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Oolitic may refer to: Oolite, a sedimentary rock consisting of ooids Oolitic, Indiana, a town whose name...
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and Bath and North East Somerset, the underlying rock is the resistant oolite limestone of the Cotswolds. Part of the Cotswolds AONB is also in Wiltshire...
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Geology of Dorset (section Inferior Oolite)
form the Wytch Farm oilfield's middle reservoir. The succeeding Inferior Oolite was deposited in a shallow, tropical marine environment, 35° north of the...
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published in 2022 indicates that the closest and most likely source of the oolite used is on the other side of the Alps in northern Italy, near Lake Garda...
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number of fossils in the inferior oolite. The Main Road Quarry exposes a fine section in the Middle and Upper Inferior Oolite, with the rocks lying stratigraphically...
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Coral reefs form the "retaining walls" of these atolls, within which oolites and pellets form. Coral growth was greater through the Tertiary, until...
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the Chalfield Oolite Formation. The oolite, together with the Fuller's Earth Formation which underlies it, forms a part of the Great Oolite Group of rocks...
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mild all year. The surface bedrock under the Miami area is called Miami oolite or Miami limestone. This bedrock is covered by a thin layer of soil, and...
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and lias of the north, the clay vales and wetlands of the centre, the oolites of the east and south, and the Devonian sandstone of the west. To the north-east...
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of an English alabaster effigy, with a tomb chest and a canopy made of oolite and Purbeck stone. Edward was buried in the shirt, coif and gloves from...
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Bauxites, limonites, and siderites often have a pisolitic structure. Ooid Oolite Mindat - Pisolite Manutchehr-Danai, Mohsen (2009). Dictionary of gems and...
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Galactic trade map of the space trading and combat simulator, Oolite...
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are the Lower Estuarine Series and the Northampton sand of the Inferior Oolite Series of the Jurassic period. The Northampton Sand here is cemented by...
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Oil shale – Organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen Oolite – Sedimentary rock formed from ooids Phosphorite – Sedimentary rock containing...
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& Palinska, K.A. (2003). "Biofilm, Biodictyon, Biomat Microbialites, Oolites, Stromatolites, Geophysiology, Global Mechanism, Parahistology". In Krumbein...
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