Crossword-Solution: OOLITES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OOLITES | anagram | OSTIOLE, STOOLIE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “OOLITES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Egg stones | 1 answer |
| Egglike stones | 1 answer |
| Minerals also known as egg stones | 1 answer |
| Sedimentary rocks resembling cemented fish roe | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ACEMZE
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eruption
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Sentences with OOLITES (5)
Now we shall run down hill for many a mile, down the back of the oolites, past pretty Chippenham, and Wootton-Bassett, towards Swindon spire.
These beds, which are without any marine equivalent in this country, appear completely to bridge over the interval between the Neocomian and the Oolites.
The external outline of the country which the geologist observes in travelling eastward from Paris to Metz, is precisely analogous, and is caused by a similar succession of rocks intervening between the tertiary strata and the Lias; with this difference, however, that the escarpments of Chalk, Upper, Middle, and Lower Oolites face towards the east instead of the west.
Against the popular idea that man has caused the misery of this world, he cites the ages, when the Old Red Sandstone bred gigantic cannibal fishes; when the Oolites produced the mighty reptile tyrants of air, earth, and sea; and when the monsters of the Eocene and Miocene periods shook the ground with their ponderous tread.
Experimental Geology.--Artificial production of calcareous pisolites and oolites.--On crystals of anhydrous lime.--4 figures.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1974–2018).