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English: Oolitic limestone from the Mississippian of Indiana, USA. (Click on the photo to zoom in & look around.) Sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of loose sediments. Loose sediments become hard rocks by the processes of deposition, burial, compaction, dewatering, and cementation.
This type of limestone is also found in Indiana in the United States. 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 was platted on March 23, 1896, by the Bedford Quarries Company. [4] It was incorporated in 1900. In 1910, its population was 1,079; in 1914 it had risen to about 2,000. [5] Oolite is a type of limestone found in Indiana. [6] Oolitic is the site of a limestone statue of comic-strip boxer Joe Palooka, moved there from Bedford in 1984. [7]
Bath stone – Oolitic limestone from Somerset used as a building material Beer Stone – Man-made caves in Devon, England Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Clipsham stone – Village in Rutland, England Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets , the famous London Stone is made of this.
Let us sing an ode to ooids, the tiny, roly-poly balls of broken shells that formed South Florida’s oolite limestone bedrock. South Florida geology 101: Lessons in the rock about future risks ...
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 is the uppermost lithology, underlain by the clays of the Fuller's Earth Formation, which in turn is underlain by limestones of the Inferior Oolite and the Midford Sands of the Lias. The Great and Inferior Oolite formations provide effective aquifers (rock in which water can be stored and pass through) for public and private ...
Rock outcrop closeup. The Miami Rock Ridge is an oolitic, continuous outcrop of limestone, part of the Miami Formation, which formerly encompassed a large extent of southernmost South Florida; as part of an ecosystem it formed portions of the Everglades.