Like many Gothic churches, the Church of the Holy Trinity uses limestone for its foundation and window tracery, as well as sandstone, brick, and wood.

There are granite cliffs in the west and limestone cliffs in the east.

Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations ( the Dukhan anticline ) along the west coast under which lies the Dukhan oil field, and massive sand dunes surrounding Khawr al Udayd, an inlet of the gulf in the southeast known to local English speakers as the Inland Sea.

A narrow band of alluvial soils is found all along the east coast and at the mouths of the major rivers on the west coast ; clay, sand, and limestone mixtures are found in the west ; and shallow or skeletal laterite and limestone are located in the south.

The Llethryd Tooth Cave, or Tooth Hole cave, is a Bronze Age ossuary site in a limestone cave, about 1, 500 yards ( 1. 4 km ) north, north west of the Parc Cwm long cairn cromlech, on private land along the Parc Cwm valley, near the village of Llethryd.

The first European to set foot on Namibian soil was the Portuguese Diogo Cão in 1485, who stopped briefly on the Skeleton Coast, and raised a limestone cross there, on his exploratory mission along the west coast of Africa.

Karst topography is the name for the honeycomb type limestone formations ( including caves, sinkholes and fissures ) that are typical in the county's limestone geology west of Interstate 35.

The gorge has been carved out by Lawn Hill Creek, which flows all year and is fed by numerous freshwater springs from the limestone plateau to the west.

Iron ore was mined on the hills on the city's southeast side, coal was ( and still is ) mined to the north and west, and limestone deposits were also nearby.

A limestone outcropping on Big Creek on the west side of town gives its name to the Bethany Falls Limestone formation.

Although most of west central Ohio is a flat landscape intersected with shallow river valleys, Wayne Lakes is located among a series of southwest trending gravel hills over a thick base of limestone.

The Kutztown area, broadly defined, encompasses an area of land also known as the East Penn Valley, a broad limestone valley situated in northern and eastern Berks County, bounded by the Blue Mountain and South Mountain ranges to the north and south, respectively, by the Lehigh County border to the east, and by the Ontelaunee Creek ( or Maiden Creek ) to the west.

The geologic formations in the southeastern part of the city are mostly limestone, while those to the north and west consist mostly of siltstone and shale.

It is located along the Juniata River, approximately east of Altoona and west of Harrisburg, in an agricultural and fruit-growing region, with valuable forests and deposits of iron, coal, fire clay, and limestone.

Towards the east lies the Blackland Prairie region ( a rich farming area ) and towards the west the terrain rises with low rolling limestone layered hills at the northeastern tip of the Texas Hill Country.

Stone buildings were built from limestone quarried from the cap rock of the west mountain.

The land in the Town of Roxbury is hilly, with high limestone bluffs in the west adjoining the Wisconsin River.

The only exposed sediments of the Perth Basin, west of the fault, are of Cenozoic age, and comprise the material such as sandy limestone, travertine and dune sand on which the city of Perth is built, including sand dunes of Pleistocene age formed during the last Ice Age.

On the west side of the 80 metre ( 260 foot ) high cliff face are about 400 irregular stone steps: these form part of the route of the Pennine Way and lead to an uneven limestone pavement at the top.

The Great Sphinx of Giza (, ), commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx ( a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head ) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.

The landscape around Pocklington therefore varies from flat arable land primarily devoted to agriculture to the south and west, and grassy, limestone hills and valleys to the north and east.

The town is situated on the A357 road on a low limestone ridge, one mile west of the River Stour.

To accommodate it, the south part of the summit was cleared, made level by adding some 8, 000 two-ton blocks of limestone, a foundation deep at some points, and the rest filled with earth kept in place by the retaining wall.

This section of wall is built from enormous meleke limestone stones, possibly quarried at either Zedekiah's Cave situated under the Muslim Quarter of the Old City or at Ramat Shlomo four kilometers northwest of the Old City.

The wall was pierced by two main gates flanked by protective structures and rectangular in shape with a lintel of a single, massive beam of limestone.

The first building of Eanna, Stone-Cone Temple ( Mosaic Temple ), was built in period VI over a preexisting Ubaid temple and is enclosed by a limestone wall with an elaborate system of buttresses.

It had a prominent limestone wall and promenade built using material quarried from Mount Eliza.

The bluff at this point is a solid wall of limestone, about one hundred and thirty feet in height.

The Djoser complex is surrounded by a wall of light Tura limestone 10. 5m high.

Beyond this portal was a hall with twenty pairs of limestone columns composed of drum shaped segments built to look like bundles of plant stems and reaching a height of 6. 6 m. The columns were not free-standing, but were attached to the wall by masonry projections.

Some remnants of the old furnace remain today in Bellefonte as its hand-cut limestone blocks are used as a retaining wall along Oxcart Road, near the Community Presbyterian Church, which is located on the original site of the iron furnace.

The bank had a wall faced with limestone, which originated over away.

Around 600 BC, in Heuneburg, Germany, forts were constructed with a limestone foundation supported by a mudbrick wall approximately 4 metres tall, probably topped by a roofed walkway, thus reaching a total height of 6 metres.

The primary blocking consisted of a wall of cemented limestone blocks, plastered and stamped with the seal of the Royal Necropolis ( with the jackal and nine captives motif ).< ref name =" reeves p. 42 "> Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 42 </ ref > Weigall later stated that a fragment of Tutankhamun's seal had been recovered from this original blocking .< ref > Weigall, A. E. P. B., < cite > The Treasury of Ancient Egypt </ cite > ( Rand McNally and Company, 1912 ) p. 208 </ ref > However, his statement is not corroborated by any of the other reports dating from the initial discovery, leaving Weigall's claim open to question .< ref > Davis, T. M., < cite > The Tomb of Queen Tiyi </ cite >, ( KMT Communications, 1990 ) p. vi .</ ref >< ref > Bell, M. R., < cite >" An Armchair Excavation of KV 55 ", JARCE 27 ( 1990 )</ cite > p. 136 </ ref >

The first wall had been partially pulled down in antiquity, and the tomb was closed again by a second wall made of loose limestone fragments, erected in front of the remains of the first wall.

Fort Frederick has the most elaborate defences as it includes earthen ramparts and a limestone curtain wall.

It consisted of a dry limestone wall.

The exterior wall is constructed in limestone.

Following the southern descent for, instead of turning steeply southeast towards Bruntscar a path continues south running adjacent the wall passing Combe Scar and West Fell to reach the limestone pavements at Ewe's Top.

It consists of mudbricks and limestone rubble that probably were originally faced by a mudbrick wall.

Considerable portions of the southern wall of the ancient citadel, built in massive cyclopean masonry consisting of limestone blocks, are still visible ; and the two walls, also polygonal, which formerly united the citadel with the town, can still be traced.

Pasargadae was place for two magnificent palaces surrounded by a majestic royal park and vast formal gardens ; among them was the four-quartered wall gardens of " Paradisia " with over 1000 meters of channels made out of carved limestone, designed to fill small basins at every 16 meters and water various types of wild and domestic flora.

File: Pamukkale00. JPG | A hanging limestone wall at Pamukkale

Its low rim is composed of loose pieces of basaltic lava and wall rocks ( sandstone, shale, limestone ) of the underlying diatreme, as well as random chunks of ancient crystalline rocks blasted upward from great depths.

Irregular in plan and now in ruins, it comprises a partially roughcast rendered rubble limestone enclosing wall with a cut stone segmental-headed entrance to the east and is situated to the south of the River Shannon, adjacent to the bridge.