"chalk" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Industrial operations arose as early as the time after the Thirty Years' War, when chalk deposits within the municipal area were worked.
- The Champagne region of France is mostly underlain by chalk deposits, which contain artificial caves used for wine storage.
- The mine was planned in the area where "a burning stone" in the chalk deposits where found in 18th century.
- The hard siliceous mineral had been torn loose from chalk deposits laid down during the cretaceous period.
- He had gathered it from the river bank, where it had been washed down from chalk deposits upstream.
- The chalk deposits contain numerous fossils of sea urchins, clams and belemnites.
- The chalk tunnels came into being as a result of the exploitation of rich chalk deposits which lie under the surface of the city.
- Flint is found amongst the pebbles on these beaches, and this is derived from chalk deposits only found underwater.
- In south-east England, the chalk deposits were formed into an elongated dome, with the long axis in a roughly east-west direction.
- The first chalk deposits contained sands and grits thought to have originated in Cornubia.
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