different between limestone vs oolith

English

Etymology

From lime +? stone.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?la?msto?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?la?mst??n/

Noun

limestone (countable and uncountable, plural limestones)

1. An abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO₃); it occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.
2. (attributive) Pertaining to or made of limestone.

   • The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Synonyms

• lime
• calcium carbonate

Hyponyms

• (mineralogy): bluestone, burrstone, calp, coquina, coral rag, chalk, malm, marble, travertine, tufa

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

limestone (not comparable)(Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

1. Made of or with limestone.

See also

• karst

Anagrams

• lemoniest, milestone

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin oolithus; the Latin word was coined by the German doctor and mineralogist Franz Ernst Brückmann (1697–1753) as a translation of German Rogenstein (“oolite”) (Rogen (“fish roe”) + Stein (“stone”)). Oolithus is derived from Ancient Greek ??? (?ión, “egg; seed”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ew- (“to clothe oneself, dress; to be dressed”), in the sense of a bird being clothed in feathers) + ?????? (líthos, “a stone; stone as a substance”) (see further at that entry), analysable as oo- +? -lith.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o???l??/
• Hyphenation: oo?lith

Noun

oolith (plural ooliths)

1. (geology) A spherical granule of which oolite is composed, formed by concentric accretion of thin layers of a mineral (usually calcium carbonate (limestone) but also others such as dolomite and silica) around a core; an ooid.

   Synonym: (rare) oolite

2. (rare) Oolite.

Related terms

• oolite
• oolithic
• oolitic
• oolitiferous (obsolete)

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References

Further reading

• ooid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Robert L. Bates; Julia A. Jackson (1980) , M. Gary, R. McAfee, Jr., and C.L. Wolf, editors, Glossary of Geology, 2nd edition, Falls Church, Va.: American Geological Institute, ?ISBN.

Anagrams

• tholoi