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Definition of Coquinas

Coquina
Coquina Co*qui"na, n. [Sp., shellfish, cockle.] A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

Meaning of Coquinas from wikipedia

- hydrocarbon discovery in the coquinas of the Lagoa Feia, followed by that of the Pampo and Linguado Fields in 1978. The coquinas of the Morro do Chaves Formation...
- mollusks, the coquina is host to a variety of parasites. On the Atlantic Coast of the United States, studies have shown that coquinas harbour the larval...
- Coquina Beach is a beach in North Carolina, US, located in the Cape Hatteras National Seas****. It is located not far from the Wright Brothers National...
- A suplex is an offensive move used in sport wrestling as well as amateur wrestling and professional wrestling. It is a throw that involves lifting the...
- different parts of the world. In the southeastern U.S. they are known as "coquina", a word that is also used for the hard limestone concretions of their...
- by sedimentation. It differs from coquina (another fossiliferous sedimentary rock) in fossil preservation, as coquinas are mainly composed of small fragments...
- The Liber de Coquina ("The book of cooking/cookery") is one of the oldest medieval cookbooks. Two codices that contain the work survive from the beginning...
- including stratified, sand-grained coquinas that are overlaid by rudstones, co****-grained sands, and matrix-supported coquinas. The paleobiota of the Coquimbo...
- Olson was a cargo ship originally built in Wisconsin in 1918 as the SS Coquina. Renamed in 1940, in August 1941 she was chartered by the US Army to transport...
- have formed a limestone that is known as coquina. Before Shark Bay became a World Heritage Site, the coquina was mined and used for the construction of...