Crossword-Solution: NUMMULITE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nummulite | n. | A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera. |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
ALWOPL
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Sentences with NUMMULITE (5)
The opinion of many observers, that the Nummulitic formation belongs partly to the cretaceous era, seems chiefly to have arisen from confounding an allied genus, Orbitoides, with the true Nummulite.
Rupert Jones have since confirmed this opinion, comparing the structure to that of the well-known nummulite.
Thomson and myself to be the same as those found in the nummulite rocks of north-west India, Scinde, and Arabia.
But I presume the cunning Romans would not trust mortar made from that coarse Nummulite limestone, filled with gritty sand, and preferred, with their usual carefulness, no mortar at all to bad.
The Nummulite beds of the Eocene were, as the result, ultimately uplifted 18,500 feet over sea level, a total uplift of not less than 20,000 feet.