Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a stone or rock entirely composed of the mineral dolomite.
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- noun geology A
sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of themineral dolomite
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Examples
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The soils are well drained silty loess over residuum, dolostone, limestone, or sandstone.
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It's full of a high-quality aggregate the term for sand, gravel and crushed stone called amabel dolostone that's needed to build roads and homes.
Thestar.com - Home Page Jennifer Bain 2011
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Ideally, high quality gravel - like Amabel dolostone - would be sourced 75 kilometres or less from the Greater Toronto Area.
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It proposes to peel back its potato fields to mine more than 2,300 acres 937 hectares of a high quality limestone called Amabel dolostone.
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IMAGE INFORMATION: Except for formations such as this dolostone column of the Turkut Formation near the Khorbusonka River, the Siberian Arctic is flat.
VT Campus News 2010
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Unweathered galena occurs along fractures filled with silica and barite and elsewhere as disseminations within the matrix of the dolostone.
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Smithsonite (ZnCO3) is the predominant ore mineral, occurring as a replacement to dolostone and limestone.
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When Mr. Elgar also wondered if the pit was really needed, Mr. Parkin told him the plan is to mine dolostone.
Orangeville 2009
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