单词 | miliolite |
释义 | milioliten. Geology and Palaeontology. A fossil milioline foraminiferan; (also) = miliolite limestone n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > [noun] > suborder Foraminifera > member of > genus Miliola > fossil miliola miliolite1833 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 246 Coarse marine limestone through which the small multilocular shell, called milliolite, is dispersed in countless numbers. 1847 D. T. Ansted Anc. World xii. 289 The beds of nummulites and miliolites contemporaneous with those containing the Sheppey plants. 1883 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. July 68 All the species of Miliolites that we have studied are dimorphous. 1900 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 56 569 In the islands known as the Great and Little Tombs and Farur, west of Kishm at the eastern end of the Gulf, the ‘miliolite’ contains several species of lamellibranchs. 1990 Jrnl. Geol. Soc. India 35 471 The miliolite is predominantly (∼ 90 %), a carbonate deposit which is essentially marine in origin. 1991 Chem. Geol. (Isotope Geosci. Section) 86 182/2 The existing inland miliolite deposits may have been formed by reworking, deflation and redeposition of the coastal miliolite formations. Compounds miliolite limestone n. a fine-grained limestone composed chiefly of miliolites. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others lias1404 stone marrow1681 stone marl1682 saint's head stone1763 Kentish rag1769 watericle1776 kankar1793 Cotham1816 mountain limestone1817 tosca1818 cornstone1819 burr1829 coral-limestone1831 scar-limestone1831 Wenlock limestone1834 bavin1839 curf1839 Solenhofen slate1841 Beer stone1871 miliolite limestone1872 Clipsham1877 reef limestone1884 Hopton wood1888 thermo-calcite1888 Kilkenny marble1930 micrite1959 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 66 The Miliolite Limestone of the Paris basin. 1967 Current Sci. 36 101/2 A study of the fossil assemblage suggests that the material examined may be Miliolite Limestone, so common along the west coast [of India]. 1988 Hydrol. Sci. Jrnl. 133 449 Extensive exploitation from a Miliolite limestone aquifer in western Gujarat, India, has resulted in saline intrusion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1833 |
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