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dolostone

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dolostone [′dō·lə‚stōn]
(petrology)

dog iron, dog anchor
dog iron
A short bar of iron with its ends bent at right angles and pointed so as to hold together the two pieces into which they are driven.


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Removal of a one-to-two-metre cover of Leda clay had revealed a unit of dolostone in the Paleozoic Oxford Formation replete with laterally linked domal stromatolites, some up to 4 m in diameter, with synoptic reliefs up to 60 cm (Fig.
The lowermost part of the section, the Rezekne and Parnu Fms, is mostly represented by weakly claycemented siliciclastic rocks, containing rare interlayers of dolostone and dolomitic marlstone.
[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] SAMPLE 1: DOLOMITIZED OOID GRAINSTONE WITH ISOPACHOUS DOLOMITE CEMENT Here we present in detail the specific reconstruction of an oolithic dolostone (Biswal et al.
 
 
 
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