"rhabdolith" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1984, Marie-Pierre Aubry, Handbook of Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton, page 88:",
          "text": "There is no doubt that Cruxia mericii designates a sacculiform rhabdolith with a structure related to that of the rhabdoliths in Group 1.",
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          "ref": "1992, Annelies Kleijne, Extant Rhabdosphaeraceae, page 11:",
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