Synonyms:
limestone
Meaning: a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals
Usage examples
Hence the pink limestone.
At night we camp at a water pocket, a pool in a great limestone rock.
The river bed was limestone, and the swiftly flowing water, clear and limpid.
"The richness of the ore and its purity of course affect the limestone consumption.
Thus, next to a dike, bituminous coal may be baked to coke or anthracite, and chalk and limestone to crystalline marble.
Upon it might have been recognized some fragments of that agglutination of yellow limestone which is characteristic of the coast of Provence.
I heard the pick ringing on the limestone soil, its iron tip sometimes giving off sparks when it hit a stray piece of flint on the sea bottom.
But some preliminary vibrations could soon be felt over the boat's hull. I heard its plating grind against the limestone roughness of that coral base.
To-night Bill has got a specimen of limestone with archeo-cyathus--the trouble is one cannot imagine where the stone comes from; it is evidently rare, as few specimens occur in the moraine.
Stone, suitable for building, was very scarce, and limestone, alabaster, marble, and basalt had to be taken from northern Mesopotamia, where the mountains also yield copper and lead and iron.
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