OOLITE

ōˈəlīt, ōˈō–, rock composed of small concretions, usually of calcium carbonate, containing a nucleus and clearly defined concentric shells. In the British Isles oolitic limestone is characteristic of the middle and upper Jurassic, which was formerly termed the Oolite on this account.

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books on: Oolite  - 101 results

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Roman Britain and the English Settlements
Book by R. G. Collingwood, J. N. L. Myres; Biblo and Tannen, 1990
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Anglo Saxon Period, 449-1066, Great Britain--History--Roman Period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D
...Early Iron Age, once more, the chalk and oolite ridges maintained their importance; and...This ancient importance of the chalk and oolite plateaux as the regions of densest population...since those times, leaving the chalk and oolite relatively bare. This is not the place...
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The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life
Book by Mark A. S. Mcmenamin; Columbia University Press, 1998
Subjects: Fossils, Paleontology--Precambrian
...Soon we found an outcrop of the Clemente Oolite, useful because it gave us an unambiguous...was 5 10 m stratigraphically below the oolite. We next turned south and headed toward...some distance stratigraphically below the oolite, Dave stopped and exclaimed, with the...
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Kuwait: Prospect and Reality
Book by H. V. F. Winstone, Zahra Freeth; Allen & Unwin, 1972
Subjects: Kuwait--History, Petroleum Industry And Trade--Kuwait
...of the middle cretaceous, in lower cretaceous oolite limestone called Minagish oolite in Kuwait . By 1963, other wells in this region...gas injection to maintain the pressure in the oolite reservoir. The discovery well was drilled to...
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A Century of Science in America: With Special Reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918
Book by Edward Salisbury Dana, Charles Schuchert, Herbert E. Gregory, Joseph Barrell, George Otis Smith, Richard Swann Lull, Louis V. Pirsson, William E. Ford, R. B. Sosman, Horace L. Wells, Harry W. Foote, Leigh Page, Wesley R. Coe, George L. Goodale; Yale University Press, 1918
Subjects: Science--United States--History
...Comanchian 1887 Beds between Chalk and Oolite Series Chalk Marle, Green Sand, Weald...Oolitic division Purbeck beds, Portland Oolite, Kimmer idge Clay Middle Oolitic division...Stonesfield Slate, Forest Marble, Great Oolite, Fullers Earth, In ferior Oolite, Sand...
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Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Book by C. F. Tweney, L. E. C. Hughes; Macmillan, 1958
Subjects: Technology--Dictionaries
...Geol. . See Pleistocene Period. Great Oolite Series Geol. . Equivalent to the Bathonian...named to distinguish it from the Inferior Oolite beneath. Consists chiefly of oolitic...slope of the Mid-Cotteswolds. The Great Oolite proper lies between the Stonesfield Slate...
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journal articles on: Oolite  - 19 results

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An Analysis of Cotswold Topography: Insights into the Landscape Response to Denudational Isostasy
Journal article by N. F. Lane, A. B. Watts, A. R. Farrant; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 165, 2008
Subjects: Cartography, Cotswolds, Geology, Plate tectonics, Studies
...around Stroud, and to the NE, by Inferior Oolite limestones, and to the south by the Great Oolite. The northwestern face of the escarpment...Lias sequences from the overlying Inferior Oolite Group. A series of similar NNW-SSE-striking...
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Once More to the Lake
Journal article by M. Dane Picard; Journal of Geoscience Education, Vol. 51, 2003
...away from the pavilion and back to the oolite, the sediments that lie along the shore...covered the blocks with a thin layer of oolite, and Leila and I slipped on the rounded...of Peekaboo Street slaloming downhill. Oolite looks a lot like fish roe, I once wrote...
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Sequence Architecture of Ancient Rocky Shorelines and Their Response to Sea-level Change: an Early Jurassic Example from South Wales, UK
Journal article by T. Huw Sheppard; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 163, 2006
Subjects: Geological time, Ogmore-by-Sea South Wales UK, Petrology, Rock deformation, Sea level, Sedimentation & deposition, Shorelines, Stratigraphy
...into the ooidal grainstones of the Gully Oolite Formation (Wilson et al. 1990; Fig...y-Gwynt they are composed of Gully Oolite. Many of the elasts are densely bored...to calcisiltitic matrix. Angular Gully Oolite Formation lithoclasts. similar to those...
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Jurassic Evolution of the Arabian Carbonate Platform Edge in the Central Oman Mountains
Journal article by Mathieu Rousseau, Gilles Dromart, Jean-Pierre Garcia, Francois Atrops, François Guillocheau; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 162, 2005
Subjects: Geology, Mountains, Oman, Sedimentation & deposition
...Bajocian interval. Sahtan Group. Oolite member A brachiopod-rich...i.e. sequence IV of the Oolite member) is of latest Bathonian...protected environments. Sparse oolites found here may have been swept...They have been referred to as Oolite and Coral systems, and, respectively...
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Fault Activity and Sedimentation in a Marine Rift Basin (Upper Jurassic, Wessex Basin, Uk)
Journal article by Andrew J. Newell; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 157, 2000
Subjects: Geological time, Geology, Plate tectonics, Sediments, Wessex England
...e.g. Kimmeridge 3) the oolites amalgamate, with little intervening...substantial thinning of the oolite bodies over the topography...pattern is also typical of many oolite bodies formed under highstand...7). Two distinct types of oolite body can be recognized in the...
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magazine articles on: Oolite  - 2 results

 
 
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The Enigma of Coral Castle
Magazine article by William Stansfield; Skeptic, Vol. 12, 2006
Subjects: Architects, Architecture, Castles & palaces, Coral reefs, Leedskalnin, Edward (1887-1951), Miami Florida, Personal profiles
...mailed me and said that the local Miami oolite limestone in South Florida can be cut...Most of the castle is constructed from oolite that was quarried somewhere else, but...wrong. It is made of the local Miami oolite. There is still the possibility that...
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From under the Surface to the London Underground: In Last Month's Geographical, Nicholas Crane Described Four of the Groundbreaking Maps That Feature in Mapman, the Eight-Part BBC2 Series That Looks at the Way Maps Changed the Shape of Britain. in This Issue, He Discusses the Four Modern Masterpieces That Complete the Series
Magazine article by Nicholas Crane; Geographical, Vol. 76, November 2004
Subjects: Maps (Geography)--Evaluation, Maps (Geography)--Varieties, Maps--Evaluation, Maps--Varieties, Surveying--Methods, Television programs
...map--a blueprint for exploiting Britains mineral wealth. The most prominent feature is the great band of yellow-coloured oolite (the building stone of the Industrial Revolution) that runs diagonally across England. Blue marl (used for brick making...


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newspaper articles on: Oolite  - 5 results

 
 
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A Country Girl Who's Gone Back to Nature; WHY I LIVE WHERE I LIVE
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 6, 2010
Subjects: Home buying--Personal narratives, House buying--Personal narratives
...a very liveable and loveable home. Rutland is undulating and very pretty. Most of the houses near me are built from local oolite stone and are pictureperfect. The wonderful thing about Rutland is that it is only 45 minutes from London Kings Cross. I can...
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Precious Stone of Shotteswell
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 21, 2006
...Warwickshire in The Buildings of England with a flavour of the visual variety in this "Mid-Land". The Cotswolds are in creamy oolite, Birmingham is brick, there is blue lias further south - and here in the south east is "toffee". Church Farm House at Shotteswell...
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SHOW HOME IN SHOW VILLAGE; PROPERTY FOCUS in a Showpiece English Village, the Best Heeled Buyers Will Be after Property Perfection. A Budget of Pounds 2.25 Million Might Just Secure It, Reports Marsya Lennox
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 18, 2008
...though Gloucestershire should claim it. Geologically, it is in the wrong county, the proof being the golden acres of Inferior Oolite - or honey Cotswold stone - but there is nothing inferior about Broadway or its prized position at the foot of the Cotswold...
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My Cotswolds Affair; from the Queen of the Aga Saga, a Very Personal Portrait of the Quintessentially English Holiday Playground That Stirs Her Passions like No Other
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 25, 2005
...extravagant charm, medieval churches and manor houses, rivers, gardens - and that stone. It is crucial to the area; a limestone oolite which pales from dark orange-gold in the north of the area to a mild blond-ish grey as it moves south, and it makes every...
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Rambling: Walk on Top of the Wold
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 31, 2004
...gently sloping plateau down to the Upper Thames Valley to the east and south. The Cotswolds are made up of a large chunk of oolite limestone that settled at the bottom of a warm shallow sea about 225 million years ago. There were then dinosaurs living on...


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encyclopedia articles on: Oolite  - 2 results

 
 
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Oolite
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OOLITE o lit, o o , rock composed of small concretions, usually of calcium carbonate...characteristic of the middle and upper Jurassic, which was formerly termed the Oolite on this account. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Limestone
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...calcium oxide ), as a building stone, and for ornamentation. Among the important varieties of limestone are marl , chalk , oolite , travertine , dolomite , and marble . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...


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