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Oolite vs Otolite - What's the difference?

oolite | otolite |

As nouns the difference between oolite and otolite

is that oolite is while otolite is .

oolite

English

(wikipedia oolite)

Noun

  • (geology) A rock consisting of spherical grains within a mineral cortex accreted around a nucleus, often of quartz grains.
  • *2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 170:
  • *:Here and there are beds of oolites , for example, made of little rounded grains – like millet seed – that form only in agitated warm waters, such as you might find off the Bahamas today.
  • (countable, rare) An ooid or oolith.

    • Synonyms

    * ooid * oolith * egg-stone

    Derived terms

    * oolitic

    otolite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
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