During periods of submersion, thick layers of limestone were laid down over the old igneous and metamorphic rock.

In this part of the country, the old metamorphic rock reveals itself through the surrounding limestone.

Some of the most sought after grapes come from the limestone / sandstone based " old vine " vineyards in the Alavesa and Alta regions.

The limestone forming Batu Caves is said to be around 400 million years old.

The Johnson Cemetery is still there and is directly above the Monument, which is a limestone marker cut into the side of the old Logansport road, you will need to walk through some over growth to reach the monument.

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.

Built in stages through the seventeenth century out of the local Cotswold limestone, space restrictions saw the south-side of the Quad built directly on top of the old City Wall.

According to some old timers in Northport the rich chimney is still at the quarry buried under tons of limestone located on the second level.

Geologically, the aquifer is composed of limestone from the Cretaceous period, about 100 million years old.

Oweynagat (" the cave of the cats "), south-west of Rathcroghan Mound, is a souterrain beneath an old road leading into a dark, narrow limestone cave.

A minor basilica of the Catholic church, it is situated on a limestone peak of 149m ( 490 feet ), on the walls and foundations of an old fort.

Monkseaton, which forms the greater part of the north west of the district, is also very old and its industries were common with those of Whitley being chiefly coalmining and limestone quarrying.

The tree is commonly found in prairies or oak barrens, old pastures, or limestone hills, often along highways and near recent construction sites.

The Barkly Tablelands consists old limestone deposits, deep underground caves and long rivers that zig-zag under the barren landscape.

Many areas below this old shoreline are flat clay plains, with occasional outcrops of gneiss or limestone ridges.

Prehistoric Venus figurines such as the Venus of Berekhat Ram may be as old as 800, 000 years, and are carved in stones such as tuff and limestone.

The National Tramway Museum at Crich, is located in an old limestone quarry and has a collection of preserved trams.

The effects of the weather are attenuated in places with limestone because of the effect of the clay and humidity in the roots ; the effects are worse in sandy areas, as well as for vines that are less than twelve years old, as the roots are generally too superficial.

The exposed portion of the mountain is made up entirely of limestone and dolomite from the Pennsylvanian period, and is about 300 million years old.

Archaeologists have also found a fragment of rock painting preserved in a limestone rock-shelter in the Kimberley region of North-Western Australia dated at 40 000 years old.

Nonetheless the thousands of shafts, hillocks and ruined buildings in the limestone landscape of the old lead mining areas, and the miles of galleries underground, make it plain that the veins of lead were intensively exploited.

Most of the houses in the village are built of local limestone, and most are 200 or 300 years old ; there are 20th-century houses at the south end of the village.

The cemetery is marked by a plain old cross and modern, limestone gates sculptured by Cliodna Cussen, showing scenes from the famine and commissioned by the Famine Cemetery Committee.

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

At later times, during the prolonged illness and after the death of his mother in 1481 when he was just six years old, Michelangelo lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in the town of Settignano, where his father owned a marble quarry and a small farm.

The Plymouth Dome, a turret and domed building, built into a small old quarry site above Tinside as an historical theme tourist attraction, failed to attract enough tourists or locals and closed in 2006.

It has long been maintained that the foundation of Seleucia diverted the population to the new capital of Babylonia, and that the ruins of the old city became a quarry for the builders of the new seat of government, but the recent publication of the Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period has shown that urban life was still very much the same well into the Parthian age ( 150 BC to 226 AD ).

Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place de Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt.

Genesee is noted for having had the fossil of an ancient whale known as Balaenoptera Lacepede unearthed in Thetford Township during quarry work and estimated at 11, 000 years old.

Most of the religious buildings of the city were demolished in that period: in 1797, the old cathedral, which had been dubbed the " wonder of the low countries ", was sold to a merchant who exploited it as a stone quarry.

They spend much of their time together swimming in an old abandoned water-filled quarry, but also often clash with the more affluent Indiana University students in their hometown, who habitually refer to them as " cutters ", a derogatory term for locals stemming from the local Indiana Limestone industry and the stonecutters who worked the quarries.

File: Gantt's Quarry Alabama 2. JPG | The old marble quarry from which the town derived its name.

The " old stone store " was built from quarry rock as a blacksmith shop in1879.

The reserve is also a good place to observe sea birds ; fulmars nest on the old quarry cliffs at the north side of the reserve.

The pool occupied by Deep Sea World is an old whinstone quarry.

Close to or in Sunnydale is an old quarry house built beside a deep lake, located a few feet from a cliff edge.

In Italy, well-known travertine quarries exist in Tivoli and Guidonia Montecelio, where we can find the most important quarries since Ancient Roman times like the old quarry of Bernini in Guidonia.

Philological rather than theological in character, it marked an epochal change from the old homiletic commentary, and though more recent research, patristic and papyral, has largely changed the method of New Testament exegesis, Alford's work is still a quarry where the student can dig with a good deal of profit.

The Quarr Local Nature Reserve at the northern end of the town makes use of an old quarry and landfill site, Sherborne Area Partnership oversees a successful Environment Forum, and in 2009 Sherborne became an official Transition Town, running a number of projects and events as a community response to climate change and peak oil.

The excavation for the Harlem River Shipping Canal in 1895, directly through an old quarry site, also served to provide a large quantity of marble rubble, which was used as a building material throughout the area.

It came from a single quarry in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from 600 million year old andesite of the Arabian-Nubian Shield.

The Don Valley Brick Works was an old brick making factory with a quarry where they extracted shale.

In December 1935 an old rock quarry was reopened to the west of the site to provide the stones needed for the house ’ s walls.

The hill also has a two disused quarries, one quarry listed on the North West side on an 1911 map, and another one listed as an old quarry on the West side in 1885-1900.