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In the process of being buried under other sediments, these ooids can fuse into a solid mass of sedimentary rock called oolite.
At Taskent the upper layer of oolite is more resistant but sharply truncated beneath stromatolites of the overlying Gevne Formation.
The size of the oolite reflects the time they have had exposed to the water before they were covered with later sediment.
Rogenstein is a term describing a specific type of oolite in which the cementing matter is argillaceous.
Upper Paoli beds reveal a well developed oolite bar containing large undeformed oolites with thick cortical rinds, in a very clear spar cement.
Horse Hill-1 will test a number of conventional stacked oil targets at the proven productive Portland sandstone, Great Oolite limestone and Corallian sandstone levels.
The hillfort itself is an outlier of a Jurassic ridge which dominates the eastern part of the study area, with light calcareous soils on an Inferior Oolite cap over sandstone.
The areas were selected to minimise estimated strip ratio and maximise exposure to the thickest portions of the higher grade magnetic Oolite zones of mineralisation.
Carboniferous Hunts Bay Oolite lies under much of south Wales.
Examples from Classical Literature
The examples of mammalia, above alluded to, are confined to the Trias and the oolite.
And the first known bird only makes its appearance in the oolite, about half-way through that latest period.
The oolite limestone beds consist of white soft limestones, having at intervals bands of marly clay.
Lincoln itself stands on Lias beds, with a capping of the lower oolite limestone.
That part of the cliffs which consist of lias, the oolite series, and chalk, decays slowly.
Although usually conformable to the oolite, it is sometimes, as in the Jura, unconformable.
Cornbrash, so called from its 'brashy' or rubbly nature, an earthy oolite yielding fair land for corn.
These were shown to be as old at least as the oolite and lias.
The flora of the oolite was peculiarly a flora of intermediate forms.
This is an excellent variety of oolite of light cream color.
It commences in the oolite, and terminates in the next formation.
The Plaine, resting on oolite limestone, is treeless but fertile.
As seen on a polished slab of chert from the sand of the Upper Oolite, Tisbury.
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