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OOLITIC LIMESTONE

Specialty Definition: OOLITIC LIMESTONE

DomainDefinition

Mining

An even-textured limestone composed almost wholly of relatively uniform calcareous ooliths, with virtually no interstitial material. It is locally an important oil reservoir (such as the Smackover Formation in Arkansas),and is also quarried for building stone. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OOLITIC LIMESTONE

Language Translations for "OOLITIC LIMESTONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

calcaire oolithique. (various references)

   

German

  

oolithischer Kalk, Rogenstein (oolite). (various references)

   

Italian

  

calcare oolitico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ooliticay imestonelay

   

Portuguese

  

calcário oolítico (egg stone, eggstone, oölite, oölith). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

caliza oolítica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OOLITIC LIMESTONE

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-i-i-l-l-m-n-o-o-o-s-t-t"

-3 letters: monticellites.

-4 letters: monticellite.

-5 letters: emollitions, melicottons, tonsillitic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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