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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
Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors. Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) helped found cultural history as a discipline.
Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...
An ooid forms as a series of concentric layers around a nucleus. The layers contain crystals arranged radially, tangentially or randomly. The nucleus can be a shell fragment, quartz grain or any other small fragment.
The technical geologic term for most oolitic limestones is “oolitic grainstone”. Uncertainty exists about the specifics of the origin of oolites. Some researchers conclude that oolites form by completely inorganic chemical precipitation of CaCO3 from water around some nucleus (a tiny shell or skeletal fragment or sediment grain).
Meanwhile, the director of Docomomo U.S., a national group that advocates for the preservation of modern architecture, said the Florida law sets a “dangerous” precedent and called the ...
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.