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Definition of Limestones
1. limestone [n] - See also: limestone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limestones
Literary usage of Limestones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"All limestones dissolve readily in cold dilute acids, giving off bubbles of
carbonic acid ... Limestones, when pure, are soft rocks readily scratched with a ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"Gotta held in 1827 that crystalline limestones might be either (1) original
secretions of calcium carbonate from the fiery fluid planet mass, ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"... Limestones, one is at once struck with the great similarity of the fauna to
that of the Millstone Grits, and through them, to a great extent, ..."
4. Soils: Their Formation, Properties, Composition, and Relations to Climate by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard (1906)
"Some compact limestones also are nearly pure; and as supplying only a single ...
But it is quite otherwise with common limestones; the mass of which, ..."
5. Building Stones and Clays: Their Origin, Characters and Examination by Edwin Clarence Eckel (1912)
"Limestones. THOUGH marbles are, from a strictly geological point of view, merely
special varieties of limestone, they occupy so distinct a position in the ..."
6. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"The limes are produced from limestones low in clayey impurities; the cements from
limestones high in clayey substances. In the burning of the former calcium ..."
7. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1893)
"At their Imse lie marls and marly limestones containing Ammonites ... sub- stages
are composed of a succession of marls and limestones (500-560 ..."
8. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1871)
"I have maintained, moreover, that the oil is indigenous to these and similar
limestones, and has not been brought into them by any process of distillation ..."
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