The large reserves of high-grade hematite in the Minas Geraes district of Brazil are also original sediments, but lack the oölitic texture.
Those of the Caucasus district in Russia are sedimentary beds, oölitic in texture, which were originally deposited as rather pure manganese oxides, and which have undergone little secondary concentration.
The Clinton ores of the Birmingham district, the Wabana ores of Newfoundland, the minette ores of the Lorraine district in central Europe, and the oölitic ores of northern England are all of these types.
The sedimentary features of many phosphate rocks, particularly their oölitic textures, show a marked similarity to the features of the Clinton type of iron ores (pp.
Its columnar structure bore evidence to the action of great heat; and its pale red color was exactly that which the Oölitic sandstones of the island, with their slight ochreous tinge, would assume in a common fire.
It is composed almost entirely of Oölitic rocks, and bears atop, especially where an ancient oyster-bed of great depth forms the subsoil, a kindly and fertile mould.
It seemed less wonderful that there should be music in the granite of Memnon, than in the loose Oölitic sand of the Bay of Laig.
And yet among the Oölitic deposits of the Hebrides evidence seems to exist that changes of this nature actually took place.
The various beds of which the cliffs are composed, as courses of ashlar compose a wall, are of very different degrees of solidity: some are of hard porphyritic or basaltic trap; some of soft Oölitic sandstone or shale.
Defn: A genus of extinct oölitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing.
Defn: The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oölitic group.
Defn: Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oölitic series.
A genus of extinct o\'94litic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing.
The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the O\'94litic group.
Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the O\'94litic series.
This texture occurs in connection with all the primary textures, but the most familiar example is oölitic limestone.
Concretions are of all sizes, from those of microscopic smallness in some oölitic limestones up to those twenty-five feet or more in diameter in some sandstones.
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