The crystallographic and physical characters resemble those of dolomite and chalybite.
Part of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster is built of dolomite.
At Danbury the mineral occurs with microcline and oligoclase embedded in dolomite.
There was a lot of dolomite and old fine cinder, very dusty, but not hot.
The dolomite or magnesian limestone of the English Permian is an instance of this.
"dolomite," said the first-helper to me, after the "jigger" was poured.
The prevalence of crystalline, concretionary and drusy structures in dolomite can thus be simply explained.
This one was perched on top of a dolomite pile, ten feet off the ground.
He's got to stare down her throat, to watch where the dolomite lands.
"All right," I said, and picked up a shovel from the dolomite pile.
1794, named for French geologist Déodat De Gratet De Dolomieu (1750-1801) who described the rock in his study of the Alps (1791).