Great and inferior oolite limestones, and sandy beds 18.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832] Reference

Woodhall water comes from the “inferior oolite” which comprises the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Mr. Strang says he used natural materials to build the home, including oolite, a rock that came from the site itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miami Home, Bali Touch] Reference

The bowl is, like other early fonts, rather tub-shaped, made of coarse-grained oolite, a Cotswold district stone, covered with uncommon ornamentation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

They vary in texture from a fine-grained compact oolite to a coarse-grained rock composed of angular or rounded fragments, and they commonly exhibit strongly marked false bedding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

He gives a very interesting coloured section, showing these different strata, where the springs arise beneath the oolite; then the ferruginous gravels, the clunch clay, and the lias underlaying all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

About a dozen men, with little tables before them, are dispersed over the latter part of the ascent, and keep tempting you with "fossiliferous specimens of the oolite formation," "tertiary," "silurian," "saurian,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference

This is oolite, the stone of which the Bell Tower is built.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evesham] Reference

The varieties of some parts present strong characteristics of the oolite formation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference

The tests indicated that it consisted of shale of the lower oolite, and the works were let accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference

It is called Bath-stone freestone, or oolite; and it lies on the top of the lias, which we have just left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference

The next day brought us to the oolite limestones at Mont Bard, and we always spent the Sunday at the Bell in Dijon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference

On rock that is much softer than that on the other side of the oolite hills: much softer, because it is much newer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference

One account treats them as growing corals, another as masses of something resembling oolite, piled together, barrier-wise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference

It is composed of the oolite stone used for all the finer and more important work in the Monastery, but has been lately painted, with unfortunate result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evesham] Reference

No feathered creatures so closely approach the lizard-tailed birds of the oolite or the toothed birds of the cretaceous period as do these Australian and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

But the oolite stone could not be got much nearer than Broadway, and what was used by the monks in all probability came from the hill above that village.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evesham] Reference

In Evesham the old roofs are all made of oolite "slats," and as these are split irregularly, we have tiles of various sizes and slightly varying in shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evesham] Reference

One of the finest buildings of its day, the library was built of oolite sandstone quarried in Ephraim and financed by mining entrepreneur John Quackenbos Packard.    From Wordnik.com.  [deseretnews.com - Top Stories] Reference

The belemnites are the internal shells of a sort of cuttle-fish which swam about in enormous numbers in the seas whose sediment forms our modern lias, oolite, and gault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

The county abounds in ironstone, which is contained in the sandstone beds of the Forest ridge, lying between the chalk and oolite of the district, called by geologists the Hastings sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers] Reference

Rows of little houses, some of them mere huts, were built against the side of the rock under the shelter of huge masses of oolite or lias projecting like the stories of mediaeval dwellings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference

Devonshire to Hunstanton in Norfolk, with the chalk always on your right hand, and the oolite hills on your left, till it ends by sinking into the sea, among the fens of Lincolnshire and Norfolk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madam How and Lady Why] Reference

Besides the interest given by irregularity, the delicate silver grey of the oolite roofs, varied with tints of moss and lichen added by time, produces an effect unsurpassed by any other form of roof covering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evesham] Reference

Er, that’s always assuming that you really meant ‘oolite’ – and didn’t just mis-spell ‘polite’ instead ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Yorkshire tag cloud] Reference

These are said to have been gravel and boulder clay, Kimmeridge and Oxford clays, Kelloway’s rock, blue clay, cornbrash, limestone, great oolite, clay and limestone, upper Estuarine clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Jura formation, "or" the upper oolite "-- a soft white limestone, with nodules and veins of flint.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Phoenicia] Reference

"Thin flat oolite stones, having a natural perforation, are found in abundance on the Yorkshire coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore] Reference

"Therefore the Hartz, the Cote d'Or, and Mount Pilus of Forez, have risen from the globe since the formation of the Jura oolite, and before the deposit of the three other formations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831] Reference

'Jura limestone' (lias and oolite).    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference

It might be mistaken for an oolite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference

"It's oolite," he announced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffin Dancer]

Lincolnshire oolite, and Northampton sands, Lias, upper, middle, and part of lower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

Estuarine clay, 140; Lincolnshire oolite, and Northampton sand, 140; lias, upper, middle, and lower, 380 feet; total, 1,120 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference