Oolite

Définition et enjeux

Congrès géologique international,  Congrès géologique international… (1891)

“ No. 2 district. It is in the south-west midlands that the Great Oolite attains to its chief importance. This is the classical region which contains so many local subdivisions, not always equally well developed in other areas, and sometimes hardly to be traced at all. The lower zone of the Great Oolite is known as the Stonesfield Slate (Hull, op. cit. p. 16) a very interesting and important, but apparently local, deposit of shelly oolite, sandy limestone, and laminated sandstones, occurring at Stonesfield near Oxford. ”
Source : Gallica

Congrès géologique international,  Congrès géologique international… (1888)

“ The calcareous beds of the Great or Bath Oolite constitute the most important building stones of this area: in the neighbourhood of Bath the Great Oolite Series was thus divided by Lonsdale 1) : —
i 1. Coarse, shelly limestones ( ft.
Upper Rags r 2. Tolerably fine oolites 20 -55 ( 3.. Tough, brown, argillaceous limestones ) Fine Freestones 1 Q-30 Lower Rags coarse, shelly limestones 10—;40
1) Woodward, Geology of England and Wales, p. 187.
These beds on Minchinhampton common yielded a large part of the well- known fauna described by Morris and Lycett.
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Source : Gallica

Congrès géologique international,  Congrès géologique international… (1891)

“ No. 3 district. The Inferior Oolite of the north-east midlands and its subdivisions have been already indicated under the heading of nomenclature. The great feature here, doubtless, is the development of a large mass of oolitic limestone, which attains its maximum development in the county of Lincoln, and was named by Prof. Judd and the late Mr Sharp the Lincolnshire Limestone. Though tolerably fossiliferous it contains very few ammonites (Prof. Judd, Geology of Rutland) . The base of this limestone in some places is marked by an oolitic flaggy series known as Collyweston Slate. ”
Source : Gallica

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