oolite

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.

   “Here and there are beds of oolites, for example, made of little rounded grains – like millet seed – that form only in agitated warm waters, such as you might find off the Bahamas today.”

2. isim An ooid or oolith.