oolite

• About midway of the section on this part of Green River, are limestones of an obscure oolitic structure, but no true oolite was observed. —  Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills
• 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 New Zealand emus and apteryxes. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• 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. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• When the grains are pretty nearly spherical and are in tolerably close contact, the rock looks very like the roe of a fish, and the name of "oolite" or "egg-stone" is in allusion to this. —  The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science
• This is oolite, the stone of which the Bell Tower is built. —  Evesham

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