Ooze
in geology, a stratum consisting of minute calcareous and siliceous tests derived from various foraminifers, etc., the wreckage of land, with volcanic ash here and there, found on ocean beds.
It was discovered in it exists between 5,000 and 15,000 feet in in the Atlantic, where depth, whence it is often called Atlantic ooze; but it occurs also in the Pacific.
The ooze is an appropriate habitation for with the material of which chalk is comsea lilies, sponges, etc. It is identical from Cretaceous times till now. In tanposed, and its deposition has gone on ning, a solution of tannin obtained by infusing or boiling oak bark, sumac, catechu, or other tannin-yielding vegetable; the liquor of a tan-vat.