(n.) A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another pint of Guinness That evening we set out again, this time to O'Donoghue's in Fanore, a blue-painted stone pub set on the thin shelf of land between the sea and the great limestone mountain that is called the Burren.
(2) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(3) Bacterial counts did not differ between sand and crushed limestone.
(4) Earlier this year, a century-old wasteland of limestone and red dirt in south-west Nigeria was transformed into the biggest cement plant in Africa.
(5) Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers – illegal under international law – and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.
(6) Effects were evaluated of high dietary levels of magnesium oxide (MgO) or limestone on DM, OM and CP digestibility, N balance and intestinal absorption of amino acids by lambs fed a high concentrate diet.
(7) FIVE MORE FRENCH COASTAL GEMS Marseille grotto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A 40-minute walk from Marseille’s Luminy university campus, Calanque de Sugiton, the most picturesque of the city’s rugged, limestone coves has blue-green waters, twisted pine trees and a narrow island-rock to swim out to known as Le Torpilleur.
(8) Limestone supplied supplemental Ca and treatment P levels were supplied by monosodium phosphate.
(9) Off the south-west coast of Ibiza stands Es Vedrà, a 400m-high limestone rock which legend suggests was the island of the Sirens who lured sailors to their deaths in Homer's Odyssey.
(10) Diets containing 25:75 corn silage to concentrates and .95% calcium from either coarse or fine limestone were fed to rumen-fistulated heifers.
(11) Treatments included control diet alone or control diet with the addition of 1.60% defluorinated rock phosphate-medium (DRP-M, 77% greater than 150 mu but less than 1,180 mu), 1.60% defluorinated rock phosphate-coarse (DRP-C, 85% greater than 850 mu but less than 1,700 mu), 1.28% limestone (92% greater than 150 mu but less than 850 mu) or .50% MgO, (81% greater than 250 mu but less than 1,180 mu), as an as-fed basis.
(12) The in vivo Ca solubilization in hens was determined by subtracting Ca recovered as limestone in the excreta (by repeated washing) from Ca fed as limestone.
(13) Detail from a Mayan limestone relief of a blood-letting ritual.
(14) Milk, flavor score was acceptable but tended to be lower for milk from cows fed sunflower seeds with additional limestone (8.4, 8.5, and 7.9).
(15) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
(16) A highly reactive limestone was selected for use in two digestion trials with Holstein steers.
(17) The Florida resort lies less than 10 feet above sea level; an increasing number of tropical storms are inundating the city; and it is built on a dome of porous limestone which is absorbing the rising seawater.
(18) Stand on the limestone pavement near Long Churn Cave in the Yorkshire Dales and it feels as if you are standing on top of time itself.
(19) Approximately 14 days after exploring a limestone cave in northcentral Florida in February 1973, an 18-year-old female developed a respiratory illness with pronounced shortness of breath and cyanosis.
(20) There's limestone and sandstone to the north, but Aswan's bedrock is hornblende granite.
Sandstone
Definition:
(n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flames could be seen through the scorched windows and billowing out of the roof of the sandstone building on the corner of Renfrew Street and Scott Street.
(2) Pueblo Bonita, constructed from artfully stacked sandstone blocks between AD900 and 1100, was once the centre of culture and commerce for the ancient Puebloan people .
(3) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
(4) This is probably explained by the intensity of exposure and the particular kind of sandstone being worked.
(5) Inside the cottages – which sleep four, five and six people – oak beams and sandstone walls are offset by 21st-century comforts such as satellite TV, DVD players and dishwashers.
(6) The light sandstone Union Buildings , at 99 a year younger than the ANC, are a visual metaphor for the republic's rich and sometimes jarring contradictions.
(7) The prevalence of silicosis in these open-cast sandstone quarriers is unexpectedly high.
(8) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
(9) The standardized incidence ratio (SIR) for lung cancer was 200 (44 observed, 22.0 expected) for all skilled stone workers, 808 (7 observed, 0.9 expected) for skilled sandstone cutters in Copenhagen, 119 (8 observed, 6.5 expected) for skilled granite cutters in Bornholm, 181 (24 observed, 13.2 expected) for all unskilled stone workers, 246 (17 observed, 6.9 expected) for unskilled workers in the road and building material industry, and 111 (7 observed, 6.3 expected) for unskilled workers in the stonecutting industry.
(10) There's limestone and sandstone to the north, but Aswan's bedrock is hornblende granite.
(11) The iron-oxides (superfine hematite) are eroded from the Peron Sandstone exposed in some coastal cliffs and constitute up to 2% of substrate sediments near these cliffs.
(12) Many of the grindstones used in Nigerian homes are quarried from sandstone in a small group of villages near Kano in the extreme north of the country.
(13) It's nonsense: Brown at best is some sort of decayed shale, shattered rubble containing the odd fossil and Cameron a rather smart golden sandstone.
(14) It comes from the new locality of Xirochori in the red sandstone of the Nea Messimbria formation.
(15) Monument Valley is named for the dozens of free-standing sandstone buttes and monoliths that tower above the sweeping sagebrush landscape.
(16) For water-wet Berea Sandstone a flood front was readily observed, but some of the oil was apparently left behind in small, isolated pockets which were larger than individual pores.
(17) Mahendraparvata was never really "lost" – the mountain has long been known as the location of the sandstone quarries that built Angkor's cities, as well as the source of water for a complex system that irrigated the vast empire.
(18) From these offices, on the lower ground floor of a Victorian sandstone building in central Glasgow, campaigners with Yes Scotland are preparing to unleash a torrent of billboard adverts, celebrity endorsements, star-studded campaign rallies, street stalls and pop-up shops selling independence for Scotland .
(19) Carved into the sandstone bedrock of north-eastern Arizona, near Chinle, the three spectacular canyons, De Chelly, Del Muerto, and Monument, lie at the centre of the Navajo Nation and at the heart of many native legends.
(20) Experimental NMR imaging measurements of two-phase displacement were conducted in several limestones and sandstones representing various different types of pore structures, including a macroscopically homogeneous structure, a laminated structure, and a sample that exhibits porosity at different scales.