different between oolith vs oolite

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)

Translations

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

English

Etymology

From oo- +? -lite, after German Oolit.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????l??t/

Noun

oolite (countable and uncountable, plural oolites)

1. (geology) A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 170:

     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. (countable, rare) An ooid or oolith.

Synonyms

• ooid
• oolith
• egg-stone

Derived terms

• oolitic
• oolitiferous

Translations

Anagrams

• lootie, toolie

Italian

Etymology

oo- +? -lite

Noun

oolite m (plural ooliti)

1. oolite; oolith