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Definition of limestone in English: limestonenoun ˈlʌɪmstəʊnˈlaɪmˌstoʊn mass nounA hard sedimentary rock, composed mainly of calcium carbonate or dolomite, used as building material and in the making of cement. 灰岩，石灰岩 Example sentencesExamples - The limestones include dolomitic mudstones, wackestones, packstones and grainstones.
- In Jamaica, extensive bauxite deposits are found overlying limestone and dolomite.
- Turkish and Italian limestone, for example, is harder than English limestone.
- The unit consists of limestone or calcareous mudstone and was deposited in a fully marine environment.
- At Elephant Hill, the depositional facies below and above the palaeokarst include two major types: fenestral limestones and dark grey limestones.
- Everywhere sounded the drip of icewater, rubbing away at banded marble and rough limestone.
- Grotte Pere-Noel lies under woodland with a brown forest soil on Devonian limestones and dolomite.
- In the Southern Central Iberian Zone there are minor acid volcanic rocks intercalated with Caradoc-Ashgill limestones.
- Mylonitic limestones are particularly useful rocks for studying deformation mechanisms and fabrics in carbonate rocks.
- Sporadic outcrops of ophiolite lithologies are surrounded by shale and limestone.
- Geologists will thrill to the revelation of the layers of limestone, shale and sandstone.
- The limestone is highly fractured and contains abundant calcite and quartz veins.
- Locally, near the village of Timirovo, the limestones are intercalated with arkosic sandstones.
- The geology here is alternating layers of limestone and shale topped with millstone grit.
- Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
- To the east is a range of hills with limestone and sandstone plateaux, and on the east bank of the Gulf of Suez is the Sinai desert.
- They are interbedded with bioturbated muddy and sandy limestones, quartz-skeletal siltstones and sandstones.
- It was here they built their homestead of local stone and limestone carted in from further out on the run.
- Thanks to the Grassington Festival I have learnt to build dry stone walls in limestone as he would have done.
- They are mainly bioclastic limestones, containing abundant fossils and fossil fragments.
Definition of limestone in US English: limestonenounˈlaɪmˌstoʊnˈlīmˌstōn A hard sedimentary rock, composed mainly of calcium carbonate or dolomite, used as building material and in the making of cement. 灰岩，石灰岩 Example sentencesExamples - Thanks to the Grassington Festival I have learnt to build dry stone walls in limestone as he would have done.
- In the Southern Central Iberian Zone there are minor acid volcanic rocks intercalated with Caradoc-Ashgill limestones.
- Geologists will thrill to the revelation of the layers of limestone, shale and sandstone.
- It was here they built their homestead of local stone and limestone carted in from further out on the run.
- In Jamaica, extensive bauxite deposits are found overlying limestone and dolomite.
- They are mainly bioclastic limestones, containing abundant fossils and fossil fragments.
- Turkish and Italian limestone, for example, is harder than English limestone.
- Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
- The unit consists of limestone or calcareous mudstone and was deposited in a fully marine environment.
- To the east is a range of hills with limestone and sandstone plateaux, and on the east bank of the Gulf of Suez is the Sinai desert.
- Sporadic outcrops of ophiolite lithologies are surrounded by shale and limestone.
- At Elephant Hill, the depositional facies below and above the palaeokarst include two major types: fenestral limestones and dark grey limestones.
- Mylonitic limestones are particularly useful rocks for studying deformation mechanisms and fabrics in carbonate rocks.
- The limestone is highly fractured and contains abundant calcite and quartz veins.
- They are interbedded with bioturbated muddy and sandy limestones, quartz-skeletal siltstones and sandstones.
- Everywhere sounded the drip of icewater, rubbing away at banded marble and rough limestone.
- The limestones include dolomitic mudstones, wackestones, packstones and grainstones.
- Locally, near the village of Timirovo, the limestones are intercalated with arkosic sandstones.
- The geology here is alternating layers of limestone and shale topped with millstone grit.
- Grotte Pere-Noel lies under woodland with a brown forest soil on Devonian limestones and dolomite.
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