"limestone" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The soft, weathered limestone is almost unreadable, like hard candy that's been sucked clean.
- That is also not consonant with the weathered limestone of the facade.
- Against the bank I built a cascade of weathered limestone that incorporates an upper pool the size of a washbasin.
- Fresh white surfaces showed where the stained brown of the weathered limestone had fractured, and only the smallest of plants had yet gained a foothold in this tumbled pile of rock, unlike the thick growth of shrubs that blanketed the rest of the hillside.
- For an hour he led them away from the Dandera rier and up over the high ground above the valley, into an area of thick scrub and up-thrust ridges of weathered limestone.
- It derives its name either from the red tones of its weathered limestone, after the better-quality white limestone casing was removed, or perhaps from the red graffiti and construction marks scribbled on its masonry in ancient times.
- The Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous) limestones encountered in wells in the U.K. sector are generally tight and non-porous although there are reservoir possibilities in weathered and fractured limestones.
- Though the presence of extensive 4th Dynasty repair work to the Sphinx and associated temples is acknowledged by egypotologists like Lehner and Hawass among others, Schoch contends; " Therefore if the granite facing is covering deeply weathered limestone, the original limestone structures must predate by a considerable degree the granite facing.
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