Min. Obs. [a. Gr. ἀμμίτης sandstone, f. ἄμμος sand.] An obsolete name for Oolite, in reference to its granular structure.
1750. Leonardus’s Mirr. Stones, 75. Amites, is a Stone of the Colour of Alumn or Nitre, but harder than either.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., The Ammites appears to the eye as a composition of large sand.
