limestone

In the occupied West Bank's arid region of Masafer Yatta, Emar made a smooth concrete floor on two caves' rough limestone ground before applying a white limewash on the brittle stone walls.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Mr. Lucas’s temple houses an Egyptian limestone relief, a sculpture of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, a substantial photography collection, and pictures by Pissarro, Renoir, Van Gogh, Léger, Picasso and Kahlo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Other tour boats skate around the limestone coast fringed with wind-blasted greenery.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

They also did an assessment and concluded the statue is most likely limestone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Most other large Polynesian islands are volcanoes that rose from the sea, have never formed parts of a continent, and may or may not include areas of raised limestone.

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

The cradle of palaeontology -- the study of fossil remains of animals and plants -- lies in the Maastricht limestones, where the first Mosasaurus was discovered in 1766.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

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

Then follows a series of sandstones, clays and limestones with occasional seams of lignite, evidently of shallow-water origin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various