Hunts Bay Oolite
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Hunts Bay Oolite is an oolitic Carboniferous limestone geological formation found in the south Wales region. It is named after Hunts Bay on the Gower peninsula, south-south west of Bishopston, where a
Bracelet Bay, eastern Gower, showing beds of Hunts Bay oolite dipping northwards and eastwards.
Steeply dipping beds of Hunts Bay oolite by Mumbles pier, eastern Gower.
Oolite
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Oolite or oölite is a sedimentary rock formed from ooids, spherical grains composed of concentric layers. Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 millimetres; rocks composed of ooids lar
Modern ooids from a beach on Joulter Cays, The Bahamas, with 0.5 mm scale
Ooids on the surface of a limestone; Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic) of southern Utah
Thin-section of calcitic ooids from an oolite within the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic) of southern Utah