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The physical and chemical properties of the Shoofly Oolite are the setting for a suite of rare plants, which the BLM protects through land use management and on-site interpretation. This type of limestone is also found in Indiana in the United States. The town of Oolitic, Indiana, was founded
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]
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 ...
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
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 ...
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. Its honey colouring gives the World Heritage City of Bath, England, its distinctive appearance.
Limestone composed mostly of ooids is called an oolite or sometimes an oolitic limestone. Ooids form in high-energy environments, such as the Bahama platform, and oolites typically show crossbedding and other features associated with deposition in strong currents.
The sandstones are occasionally intercalated with very thin-bedded blue-grey claystone. In places, the sandstone is overlain by the upper Burgsvik beds, which comprise thin-bedded, light-to-bluish grey, oolitic limestone with alternating sandy beds containing problematic structures described by Manten (1966).