Meaning of rhabdolith | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A minute calcareous rodlike structure found at both the surface and the bottom of the ocean, supposed by some to be a calcareous alga.
2. Any Mesozoic and Cenozoic coccolith consisting of a single plate with a stem.
   broadly

Examples

“It there forms bold bluffs for many miles, and the name⟳ "Chalk" is very properly applied to it, from the fact that, like⟳ the chalks of Europe, it is largely composed of Foraminifera and coccoliths, to which, in these formations, is added the more recently discovered rhabdolith.”

“There is no doubt⟳ that Cruxia mericii designates a sacculiform rhabdolith with a structure⟳ related to that of the rhabdoliths in Group 1.”

“A dithecate coccosphere has two discrete layers of different rhabdolith type⟳, an inner endotheca and an outer exotheca.”

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