Ooid facts for kids
An ooid is a small rounded sedimentary rock. Like sand grains, ooids have a diameter of 2 mm or less. Larger grains formed the same way as ooids are called pisoids. Rock made of ooids is oolite.
Images for kids
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Modern ooids from a beach on Joulter Cays, The Bahamas.
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Fossils ooimmured in ooids from the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic of southern Utah).
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