limestone

In the front gardens, yellow and red roses bloom to match the houses’ exteriors; in the back, a sunny 4-foot cocktail pool with a natural limestone border awaits guests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

He explained Headon Warren, a nationally important maritime heathland and rare limestone grassland, supported a range of wildlife, including Dartford warblers, nightjars, whitethroats and stonechats.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

The Caribbean island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, contains thousands of limestone caves.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Then, if the system is visible from the street, local officials can refuse if it mars the iconic, limestone facades of the city’s Haussmannian buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Both of those atoll types present problems to human settlers, because they consist entirely of limestone without other stones, have only very thin soil, and lack permanent fresh water.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The discovery was made at Lavernock Point, close to Cardiff and Penarth, where the cliffs of dark-coloured shales and limestones document ancient shallow seas.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024

This magma is thought to have expelled gases that flowed into limestones, chemically altering them.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2023

Next, I moved to Ridgewood, so deep into Bushwick that I was actually in Queens, where the old limestones on my block literally doubled in value over the course of four years.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2020

Carbon-rich rocks, such as limestones, are sucked inside Earth at plate margins.

From Nature ● Jun. 11, 2019

This limestone will make just as rich soil for the farmers of the future as the limestones of other ages have made for the famous Blue-Grass region of Kentucky, for example.

From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hallam Hawksworth