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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. [3]
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 .
Oolitic limestones are whitish to cream-colored limestones composed of sand-sized (1/16 to 2 mm in size), well rounded, concentrically-layered calcite or aragonite grains called oolites (also known as ooliths or ooids). Oolites form by rolling back and forth on a shallow seafloor, or sometimes on a shallow lake bed, by wave action.
Oolitic was platted on March 23, 1896, by the Bedford Quarries Company. [4] It was incorporated in 1900. In 1910, its population was 1,079; in 1914 it had risen to about 2,000. [5] Oolite is a type of limestone found in Indiana. [6] Oolitic is the site of a limestone statue of comic-strip boxer Joe Palooka, moved there from Bedford in 1984. [7]
The following are the list of local geology: [2] Kallang Formation: [2]: xxii Reef Member: Coral, unconsolidated calcareous sand and lesser quartz, ferruginous and lithic sand.
Oolitic aragonite sand is composed of the calcium carbonate mineral, aragonite, with an egg-like shape ("oolitic" from the Ancient Greek word ᾠόν for "egg") and sand grain size. This sand type forms in tropical waters through precipitation , sedimentation , and microbial activity, and is indicative of high energy environments. [ 1 ]
Hunts Bay Oolite is an oolitic Carboniferous limestone geological formation found in the south Wales region. It is named after Hunts Bay on the Gower peninsula, south-south west of Bishopston, where a significant amount of the limestone forms the cliffs there.