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