limestone
ಸುಣ್ಣದ
definition
noun
In Jamaica, extensive bauxite deposits are found overlying limestone and dolomite.
a hard sedimentary rock, composed mainly of calcium carbonate or dolomite, used as building material and in the making of cement.
translation of 'limestone'
ಸುಣ್ಣ ಕಲ್ಲು,
ಕಟ್ಟಡ ಕಟ್ಟುವಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಿಮೆಂಟ್ ತಯಾರಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಳಸುವ,
ಒಂದು ಜಲಜ ಶಿಲೆ,
ಮುಖ್ಯವಾಗಿ ಕ್ಯಾಲ್ಸಿಯಂ ಕಾರ್ಬೊನೇಟ್ ಉಳ್ಳ
noun
ಸುಣ್ಣ
example
Everywhere sounded the drip of icewater, rubbing away at banded marble and rough 'limestone' .
Turkish and Italian limestone, for example, is harder than English 'limestone' .
Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and 'limestone' throughout the region.
Geologists will thrill to the revelation of the layers of 'limestone' , shale and sandstone.
Sporadic outcrops of ophiolite lithologies are surrounded by shale and 'limestone' .
In Jamaica, extensive bauxite deposits are found overlying 'limestone' and dolomite.
The unit consists of 'limestone' or calcareous mudstone and was deposited in a fully marine environment.
To the east is a range of hills with 'limestone' and sandstone plateaux, and on the east bank of the Gulf of Suez is the Sinai desert.
It was here they built their homestead of local stone and 'limestone' carted in from further out on the run.
The 'limestone' is highly fractured and contains abundant calcite and quartz veins.
The geology here is alternating layers of 'limestone' and shale topped with millstone grit.
Thanks to the Grassington Festival I have learnt to build dry stone walls in 'limestone' as he would have done.
Grotte Pere-Noel lies under woodland with a brown forest soil on Devonian 'limestones' and dolomite.
They are mainly bioclastic 'limestones' , containing abundant fossils and fossil fragments.
Locally, near the village of Timirovo, the 'limestones' are intercalated with arkosic sandstones.
They are interbedded with bioturbated muddy and sandy 'limestones' , quartz-skeletal siltstones and sandstones.
Mylonitic 'limestones' are particularly useful rocks for studying deformation mechanisms and fabrics in carbonate rocks.
At Elephant Hill, the depositional facies below and above the palaeokarst include two major types: fenestral limestones and dark grey 'limestones' .
In the Southern Central Iberian Zone there are minor acid volcanic rocks intercalated with Caradoc-Ashgill 'limestones' .
The 'limestones' include dolomitic mudstones, wackestones, packstones and grainstones.
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