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What does dolomite mean?

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  1. (mineralogy) A saline evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO3)2; it also exists as the rock dolostone.
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The main minerals identified were mainly calcite also some diopside, wollastonite, iron oxides and a few scattered dolomite crystals.
Grotte Pere-Noel lies under woodland with a brown forest soil on Devonian limestones and dolomite.
Rhombs of ferroan dolomite occur both in the fringe around the fossils and within the matrix of the concretion.
The larger dolomite crystals fill voids in the fine-grained dolomite matrix.
Massive dolomite and dolomitic breccias are separated by a normal fault from the upper part of the sequence.
Middle Triassic anhydrite and dolomite form a sequence of strong reflectors, as does Lower Cretaceous sandstone.

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