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  • Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the old Oolitic Silurian Period, must a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.

    The ozone hole and the law of unintended consequences 2010

  • And hear wii haf micro-crystaline structures, ober dare r Oolitic aggregatez.

    Ur daiz…dey is numbrd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • And even as regards the Mammalia, the scanty remains of Triassic and Oolitic species afford no foundation for the supposition that the organization of the oldest forms differed nearly so much from some of those which now live as these differ from one another.

    Essays 2007

  • He may even now — if I may use the phrase — be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age.

    The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.

    Hansen Simplified « Climate Audit 2006

  • Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod.

    Gavin vs Kaufmann « Climate Audit 2005

  • Oolitic limestorne is a chemically precipitated limestone of high purity.

    1. General Information 1985

  • He may even now -- if I may use the phrase -- be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • While our Oolitic and Chalk rocks were being slowly laid down under northern seas, the extensive coast plains of the island, especially on its western and southern sides, were again and again under water, and are still raised but a few hundred feet above the sea-level.

    The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 Various

  • Keuper sandstone; (4) the Oolitic, or Jurassic series, including Lias;

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

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