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The town of Oolitic, Indiana, was founded for the trade in limestone and bears its name. Quarries in Oolitic, Bedford, and Bloomington contributed the materials for such U.S. landmarks as the Empire State Building in New York and the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.
Oolitic may refer to: Oolite, a sedimentary rock consisting of ooids; Oolitic, Indiana, a town whose name came from the underlying limestone; Oolitic aragonite sand, which is formed naturally, and used extensively in reef aquariums
Oolites form by rolling back and forth on a shallow seafloor, or sometimes on a shallow lake bed, by wave action. Oolites are forming today on the Bahamas Platform and in Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. The technical geologic term for most oolitic limestones is “oolitic grainstone”. Uncertainty exists about the specifics of the origin of oolites.
The part of the Miami Limestone forming the Atlantic Coastal Ridge and the lower Florida Keys is an oolitic grainstone which includes fossils of corals, echinoids, mollusks, and algae. The oolitic formation in the lower Florida Keys has less quartz sand and fewer fossils than does the oolitic formation on the mainland. [3]
Great Pulteney Street, Bath, looking West towards Pulteney Bridge.The style and the Bath stone used are typical of much of the city. Bath stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England.
The Great Oolite Group is a Middle Jurassic stratigraphic unit that outcrops in southern England. It consists of a complex set of marine deposits primarily mudstone and bioclastic ooidal and fine grained limestone, deposited in nearshore to shelf settings. [1]
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Caen stone was used in the construction of the late 11th-century austere Norman Romanesque Church of Saint-Étienne, at the Abbaye-aux-Hommes (on the east side of Caen), which was founded by William the Conqueror, whose tomb is located there.