How to use in-sentence of “limestone”:
– However, an ancient base survives, made of a grey limestone block between two blocks of marble.
– These form a landscape characterised by steep sided limestone hills and flat, fertile valleys.
– Purbeck marble is a fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England.
– France also had beautiful white limestone from Caen which was perfect for making very fine carvings.
– The ‘marble’ large clasts in a fine-grained limestone mud matrix.
Example sentences of “limestone”:
– This was changed to a uniformly white façade, clad in limestone and marble.
– This is similar in age to the Solnhofen limestoneSolnhofen Limestone Formation in Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania.
– Near Han-sur-Lesse, by the “Gouffre de Belvaux”, the entire river goes underground, flowing through limestone caves.
– In the north part, it has a flat area of coral and limestone rock.
– Almost always, karst is formed in carbonate rocks, such as limestone or dolomite.
– Jenolan Caves are limestone caves in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, 175 kilometres west of Sydney.
– The Blue Lias consists of a sequence of limestone and shale layers.
– Fossils at Riversleigh are found in limestone by lime-rich freshwater pools, and in caves.
– The strata are beds of white-grey limestone separated by beds of chert.
– A small limestone quarry was opened, and a lime kiln set up.
– Creswell Crags is a limestone Canyongorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England.
– There are many cracks in the limestone exterior.
– This formation is similar in age to the Solnhofen limestoneSolnhofen Limestone Formation in Germany and the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania.
– Almost any fossil-bearing limestone or shale from inland seas of the late Paleozoic tropics or subtropics is likely to contain some goniatites.
- This was changed to a uniformly white façade, clad in limestone and marble.
- This is similar in age to the Solnhofen limestoneSolnhofen Limestone Formation in Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania.
- Near Han-sur-Lesse, by the "Gouffre de Belvaux", the entire river goes underground, flowing through limestone caves.
More in-sentence examples of “limestone”:
– Part of the watershed of the Lesse is on limestone where there are some karstic phenomena.
– The original buildings were built using local limestone – greystone – which was mined just north of campus.
– The bumblebee bat roosts in the caves of limestone hills, along rivers, within dry evergreen or deciduous forests.
– The Edelweiss prefers Rock rocky limestone places.
– A great part of the Southern Limestone Alps cover the Austrian part of Tyrol.
– This reserve was founded in 1981 by the California State Legislature, to protect the formations of the natural limestone “Tufa” at Mono Lake.
– Alois Senefelder used specially prepared blocks of the fine Solnhofen limestone for the process of lithography which he invented in 1798.
– The limestone in the rocks was then eroded by wind and water to create these spectacular stone pillars.
– In 1824 Joseph Aspdin invented a cement by burning a mixture of limestone and clay.
– It usually lives in limestone caves along rivers.
– These limestone beds were deposited during Lower Cretaceous epoch.
– The Allgäu Alps are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps.
– The quarrying of this lithographic limestone later yielded spectacular finds, including “Archaeopteryx”, commemorated in the bird’s full name “Archaeopteryx lithographica”.
– In 1941, Maldarelli won the Logan Prize for a detailed sculpture of a limestone head.
– It has limestone walls.
– The fine-grained texture of the mud silt forming the limestone is ideal for making Lithographylithographic plates for printing illustrations.
– Marble is a metamorphic rock which forms when a limestone is subjected to high pressure and/or temperature.
– Some karst topography is evident, and the limestone has a great number of caves.
– In the early days of lithography, a smooth piece of limestone was used.
– For a long time Slite was an important place for trade and business; nowadays tourism is an important source of income but also industry with stone and gravel, producing concrete from raw material of limestone from nearby quarries.
– This is a very fine-grained limestone from the Upper Jurassic period.
– They are two fossils from the same place and time: the Solnhofen limestone in Bavaria, Germany.
– Mining is mostly for construction materials such as limestone and marble.
– It is the world’s largest single exposure of limestone bedrock, and occupies an area of about from east to west across the border region between South Australia and Western Australia.
- Part of the watershed of the Lesse is on limestone where there are some karstic phenomena.
- The original buildings were built using local limestone – greystone – which was mined just north of campus.
- The bumblebee bat roosts in the caves of limestone hills, along rivers, within dry evergreen or deciduous forests.
– Gibraltar is most famous for “The Rock of Gibraltar”, a 426meter high limestone rock rising out of the sea.
– The major Rock rock exposures in the Grand Canyon range in age from the almost 2 billion year old Vishnu Schist at the bottom of the Inner Gorge to the 230 million year old Kaibab Limestone on the rim.
– It is located on a limestone outcrop of the Eocene age.
– The females sometimes lay eggs in shallow limestone basins.
– The town developed from Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements over many hundreds of years on the slopes of the limestone headland, known to seafarers as the Great Orme and to landsmen as the Creuddyn Peninsula.
– Almansa is built at the foot of a white limestone cliff.
– The German specimen was found in the Solnhofen limestone in Bavaria, over 150 years ago.
– The southern part is more mountainous with spurs of the Alps, like the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps and the Vienna Woods.
– So are the Solnhofen limestone quarryquarries in Bavaria.
– Quicklime, a chemical that has widespread use, can be made heating limestone to about 850°C.
– There are a large number of limestone caves on the Virginia side.
– They often lie in groups within limestone holes or under rock ledges.
– It extends west into Limestone county.
– In Italy, limestone was used for city walls and castles, but brick was used for other buildings.
– Mooresville is a town of Limestone County in the U.S.
– This may occur in erosioneroded limestone areas known as karst topography, which make up only a small percentage of Earth’s area.
– Mount Parnassus, also Parnassos, is a mountain of limestone in central Greece.
– The area around Harrington Sound, BermudaHarrington Sound is made of limestone and has many underground waterways, through which the waters of the sound empty into the Atlantic.
– There is a layer of Devonian limestone more than 500m thick.
– There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal’a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town; and Djémila and Timgad, both Ancient RomeRoman ruins; M’Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.
– It has a lighthouse made from limestone built in 1859.