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