From a scrambling point of view, if they are rock-climbers, they will be well rewarded, for Dolomite rock-climbing is a thing apart.
At first sight the town seems to be but a dolomite crown fixed on the cliffs themselves, until the eye discerns a circle of granite walls, broken at regular intervals by machicolated towers, to this day in perfect preservation.
The midland plain curves northward between the outcrop of the Dolomite on the west and the Oolitic heights on the east.
The Dolomite Cavern' has the great merit of being very well written.
Besides the Dolomites included in the above region there are several other Dolomite groups (though less extensive) in the Alps.
The dolomite or magnesian limestone of the English Permian is an instance of this.
Several varieties of dolomite have been distinguished, depending on differences in structure and chemical composition.
In the white crystalline dolomite-rock of the Binnenthal near Brieg in Switzerland beautiful water-clear crystals of dolomite are found; and crystallized masses occur embedded in serpentine, talc-schist and other magnesian silicate rocks.
At the same time the rock becomes crystalline, its minute structure is altered, its fossils are effaced, and asdolomite has a higher specific gravity than limestone, contraction results and cavities are formed.
Calcite is more soluble than dolomite in water saturated with carbonic acid and would tend to be slowly removed from a limestone, while the dolomite increased in relative proportion.
Roughly speaking the Dolomite region lies between the Brenner railway from Franzensfeste to Trent (W.
The prevalence of crystalline, concretionary and drusy structures in dolomite can thus be simply explained.
Among the most famous dolomites are those of the Dolomite Alps of Tirol.
Dolomite dissolves only very slowly in dilute hydrochloric acid in the cold, but readily when the acid is warmed; limestones are freely attacked by the acid in either state.
In the steepest mountains of the Dolomite region, for instance, the rocks are thus broken, and therefore mountains can be climbed easily which, from their bases, look absolutely inaccessible.
The rubber soles of these are far safer than nails on the smooth and slabby Dolomite rock.
The way steadily descends for hours, past the pretty hamlets of Canazei, Campitello and Vigo di Fassa, surrounded by an imposing array of Dolomite peaks.
This is the most striking of all the Dolomite peaks.
Deposits of silica, carbonate of iron or small rhombohedra of dolomite are often found in the interior of the spheroids, and oolites may be entirely silicified (Pennsylvania, Cambrian rocks of Scotland).
He must know also that mysterious rock which the western miner calls porphyry, and to which is ascribed most wonderful virtues in the way of ore attraction; while dolerite and dolomite must be to him familiar terms and substances.
The ever-crumbling dolomite has formed a soil very favourable to a varied flora.
It is that these honeycombed and fantastically-shaped masses of dolomite or magnesian limestone represent the skeletons of vaster rocks whose less resisting parts were washed away by the wearing action of the sea.
Wonderful the scenery of the Causses, still more wonderful the cañon or gorge of the Tarn and the dolomite city of Montpellier-le-Vieux, so I now learned.
The foot-sure, hardy and leisurely traveller must not content himself with the bird's-eye view of this dolomite city just described.
In process of time the dolomite city must undergo the fate of other marvels of the natural world.
Little wonder that the peasants formerly spoke of the dolomite city, when forced to speak at all, with bated breath, and gave it so ill-omened a name.
This dolomite also will prove a valuable building stone for prairie towns, when made available by the Hudson Bay Railway.
The dolomiteis everywhere permeated with bituminous matter, which collects in the numerous cavities, and oozing up through cracks, often forms small pools on the surface of the rock.
It constitutes the bulk of the chalk deposits and limestone rocks; it forms over one-half of the mineral dolomite and the rock magnesium limestone; it occurs also as the dimorphous minerals aragonite (q.
Is this wall a succession of rocks of dolomite or a dyke of quadersandstein, like the Devil's Wall (Teufelsmauer), at the foot of the Hartz?
This expression seems to prove that the plates of mica take in some parts a uniform direction, as in the greenish dolomite of Val Toccia.
Their windows give an exquisite glimpse down the deep glen which falls towards Forno di Zoldo, and across to a high ridge capped by a most fantastic fence of dolomite splinters.
Above Tione the broad open basin which divides the granite and the dolomite is known as Val Rendena.
A considerable mass of dolomite crops out in the range which separates the parallel troughs of the Upper Engadine and Val Livigno.
In the dolomite districts the separate crags, cut up as they may be by flaws at right angles to the lie of the strata, have not, except from considerable distances, the same flamelike outlines.
Nothing impeded our view over the central dolomite region, and beyond it we recognised against the horizon the pale snowy line of the distant Tauern.
Elsewhere in the dolomite country edifices may be seen covering a wider space of ground, or decorated with more fantastic pinnacles, the Westminster Palaces and Milan Cathedrals of their order.
Behind us the icy comb of the Care Alto gleamed through the branches; in front the massive form of a dolomite peak towered over the tree-tops.
A mile of dusty cart-road leads to a bridge at the foot of the wooded rock which juts out from the dolomite range and blocks up the lower part of Val Selva.
Brenta' is a local word in the Sarca valley for a shallow vessel used for soup in cottages: thence it is applied to the stagnant pools or tarns common in the dolomite glens.
There is also dolomitebetween the Via Mala and the Savien Thal, and in other parts of Switzerland.
Rubies both crystalline and amorphous are also found in a particular stratum of dolomite at Bullatotte and Badulla, in which there is a peculiar copper-coloured mica with metallic lustre.
I picked up my shovel, and shoved it into the dolomite pile, with a slight pressure of knee against right forearm that eases your back.
There was a lot ofdolomite and old fine cinder, very dusty, but not hot.
He's got to stare down her throat, to watch where the dolomite lands.
He glared at me, and interfered with my shovel twice when we went together to the dolomite pile.
We do that relining by shovelingdolomite into the furnace.
This one was perched on top of a dolomite pile, ten feet off the ground.
He put his glasses back on his cap, glanced at me, and pointed to a pile of dolomite and slag which had been growing in front of Number 3 door.
All right," I said, and picked up a shovel from the dolomite pile.
I earned two cents more an hour, and threw down a hole the dolomite and dirt they cleared away.
They had sledged it out--sledged through the steel that had crept into the dolomiteand closed the tap-hole.
I then washed soot and dolomite dust from ears and neck, and dipped my left arm, which was burned, in cold water.
It was a rare thing I learned: the mud and dolomite (a limestone substance) in the tap-hole had not been properly packed, and broke through.
They are in fairly close proximity to igneous rocks, and magnesia-bearing solutions issuing from these rocks are believed to have dissolved out the calcium carbonate of the dolomite and replaced it with magnesium carbonate.
The large magnesite deposits of Austria and of Washington, as well as those of Quebec, occur as lenses in beds of dolomite (calcium-magnesium carbonate).
Under the high prices which prevailed during the war, dolomite was to some extent substituted for magnesite.
Furthermore, the quartz gangue near the igneous rock is likely to contain minerals characteristic of hot solutions, while farther away such minerals as dolomiteand calcite appear in the gangue, suggestive of cooler conditions.
Difficult to distinguish from limestone unless a chemical test is made for magnesium, though it may be said in general that dolomite is less soluble in cold mineral acids.
Differs from limestone in containing varying proportions of the mineral dolomite (ante, p.
There were several inns in the straggling village, for the place lay high up amongst the dolomite hills of Upper Franconia, and people came there from the neighbouring towns for Waldluft.
Marls with layers of Dolomite and anhydrous gypsum.
Those ofDolomite imply precipitation of carbonate of lime and magnesia in the sea-bottom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dolomite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
