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Victor is the home of Victor Oolitic Stone Company, a limestone quarry and limestone fabricator in existence since 1898. [2] A location between near Victor and Harrodsburg on Clear Creek was chosen by Col. John Ketcham for his home and grist mill.
Bath stone – Oolitic limestone from Somerset used as a building material Beer Stone – Man-made caves in Devon, England Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Clipsham stone – Village in Rutland, England Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets , the famous London Stone is made of this.
Oolite or oölite (from Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión) 'egg stone') [1] is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. [2] Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 millimetres; rocks composed of ooids larger than 2 mm are called pisolites .
Oolites form by rolling back and forth on a shallow seafloor, or sometimes on a shallow lake bed, by wave action. Oolites are forming today on the Bahamas Platform and in Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. The technical geologic term for most oolitic limestones is “oolitic grainstone”. Uncertainty exists about the specifics of the origin of oolites.
Caen stone (French: Pierre de Caen) is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in north-western France near the city of Caen. The limestone is a fine grained oolitic limestone formed in shallow water lagoons in the Bathonian Age about 167 million years ago. The stone is homogeneous, and therefore suitable for carving.
Oolitic may refer to: Oolite, a sedimentary rock consisting of ooids; Oolitic, Indiana, a town whose name came from the underlying limestone;
The Middle-Jurassic oolitic limestone series which forms the bulk of the Cotswolds hills contains the best-known of the county's rocks on account of its extensive use throughout the area as a building stone. All from churches to humble cottages have been imbued with a mellow, warm character from the golden yellow colour of the stone - to which ...
An 1825 map of Singapore showing the location of Rocky Point at the mouth of the Singapore River, where the sandstone slab stood.. In June 1819, a few months after the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles (1781–1826) in Singapore, a sandstone slab about 10 ft (3.0 m) high and 9 to 10 ft (2.7 to 3.0 m) long was found by labourers clearing jungle trees at the southeast side of the mouth of the ...