The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper.

Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate ( CaCO < sub > 3 </ sub >).

Limestone is a parent material of Mollisol soil group.

Limestone is partially soluble, especially in acid, and therefore forms many erosional landforms.

The world's largest limestone quarry is at Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company in Rogers City, Michigan.

Limestone is very common in architecture, especially in Europe and North America.

So many buildings in Kingston, Ontario, Canada were constructed from it that it is nicknamed the ' Limestone City '.

Limestone is readily available and relatively easy to cut into blocks or more elaborate carving.

Limestone was also a very popular building block in the Middle Ages in the areas where it occurred, since it is hard, durable, and commonly occurs in easily accessible surface exposures.

Limestone is the chief form of calcium carbonate rock which is dissolved by water that contains carbon dioxide, forming a calcium bicarbonate solution in underground caverns.

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Padthaway is a small town on the Riddoch Highway in the Limestone Coast region of south-eastern South Australia, halfway from Keith to Naracoorte.

Limestone is also found in the region, at the Cotswolds, Quantock Hills and Mendip Hills, where they support sheep farming.

It is a part of Southern Limestone Alps and extends from the River Adige in the west to the Piave Valley ( Pieve di Cadore ) in the east.

The lower section is made up of Carboniferous Limestone, a softer rock which is more easily worn away by the waterfall.

The first sedimentation layer in Leon County is the Oligocene Suwannee Limestone in the southeastern part of the county as stated by the United States Geological Survey and Florida Geological Survey.

Limestone is to a certain extent soluble, so cave systems form in the rock.

Limestone County is a county of the U. S. state of Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville Metropolitan Area.

The current Sheriff of Limestone County is Mike Blakely, who has been sheriff for 7 terms ( since 1982 ).

Limestone County is home to Swan Creek Wildlife Management area, part of the Tennessee River, and a section of the Elk River.

Limestone is a very porous rock, yet very hard and resistant to erosion.

The scarp is formed by resistant Middle Jurassic rocks, principally the Lincolnshire Limestone series, and is remarkable for its length and straightness.

Limestone was crushed into a powder on the Mission grounds to create a mortar that was more erosion-resistant than the actual stones.

Limestone windows are normally flatter than other mountainous valleys, and are typically coated with rich, fertile soil.

Jacobs Cavern is one of the smaller caves in the Ozarks, hardly more than a rock-shelter, and is entirely in the St. Joe Limestone of the sub-carboniferous age.

Limestone was most popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

More tributaries including Ellen Brook, Jane Brook, Henley Brook, Wandoo Creek, Bennett Brook, Blackadder Creek, Limestone Creek, Susannah Brook, and the Helena River enter the river between Wooroloo Brook and Guildford ; however, most of these have either dried up or become seasonally flowing due to human impacts such as land clearing and development.

Arguably the most infamous Indian depredation in Texas happened in Limestone County on May 19, 1836 when an odd alliance of Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo and Wichita approached Fort Parker surreptitiously under a flag of peace.

The county was endowed with an abundance of minerals including Copper, Lead, Limestone and most importantly coal.

The Pennyroyal is largely in farmland where the bedrock is limestone, and most of the Pennyroyal is based on Mississippian age limestone, particularly the St. Louis Limestone or Ste.

The Rim is an escarpment defining the southwestern edge of the Colorado Plateau, and along its central and most spectacular portions is characterized by high limestone and sandstone cliffs, namely the Kaibab Limestone and Coconino Sandstone.

Exposures of this limestone -- the Amuri Limestone -- provide some of the most complete records for this time interval of Earth's history.

The most notable layer of chert-bearing limestone is the Florence Limestone Member.

The Limestone Road Baragwanathia fossil site has been registered in the National Estate due to the discovery of the most ancient leafy foliage so far found on earth.

Clipsham stone, part of the Upper Lincolnshire Limestone Formation, can be found in many of Britain's most famous buildings including King's College Chapel ( Cambridge ), the Examination Schools in Oxford, York Minster, and in repairs to the Houses of Parliament.

Limestone and shale over igneous rock comprise the Highlands.

Limestone makes up about 10 % of the total volume of all sedimentary rocks.

Limestone makes up about 10 % of the total volume of all sedimentary rocks.

The term ' Old Red Sandstone ' was originally used in 1821 by Scottish naturalist and mineralogist Robert Jameson to refer to the red rocks which underlay the ' Mountain Limestone ' i. e. the Carboniferous Limestone.

Limestone in the form of ' calcrete ' within the local sandstone rocks has been burnt for lime in many places across the Black Mountains for both mortar and agricultural uses.

While Snowdonia contains a mix of volcanic rocks and sedimentary rocks of Cambrian and Ordovician age, the mountains of South Wales are mainly Devonian age Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous Limestone and similarly aged sandstones.

Limestone layers that give the rest of Iowa hard water were instantaneously vaporized down to the basement rocks, giving Manson the anomalous soft water that it has today.

He assisted Sir RJ Griffith by studying the fossils of the carboniferous and silurian rocks of Ireland, and they prepared a joint in 1844 appeared A Synopsis of the Character of Carboniferous Limestone Fossils of Ireland ( 1844 ) and Synopsis of the Silurian Fossils of Ireland ( 1846 ).

The peninsula is made up of two different types of sedimentary rocks, the Amuri Limestone of Palaeocene age and Oligocene aged mudstone.

Water draining from Black Down has exposed rocks from the Devonian sandstones of the Portishead Formation which show through the limestone and mudstone of the Avon Group and younger marine Carboniferous Black Rock Limestone.

The scenery around Coniston derives from Coniston Limestone and rocks of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group.