Oolitic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Oolitic is an adjective meaning (geology) Made up of, or containing oolites.
Meaning
(geology) Made up of, or containing oolites.
More Meanings
- An oolite.
- (dated, 19th century) Of a prehistoric era; Jurassic.
- (dated, 19th century) A prehistoric era; the Jurassic.
Example Sentences
Masses of white, finely oolitic rock are attached to the outside of some of these coated pebbles.
These mines occur in the same ridge in which, about 120 miles to the northward, and subsequently in their more immediate neighborhood, we discovered the fossils belonging to the oolitic period
Word Forms
- oolitics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include calcarenite, ironstones, oolitiferous, oligistic, olivinitic, omphacitic.
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