limestone
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Brian Schaer, 43, a limestone miner from southern Iowa, sums up the inchoate resentment: “It’s frustrating when you don’t get your stuff going.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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 and two fellow fossil hunters were walking away from Lavernock Point when they spotted a large shape in the limestone.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
The limestone landscape in the region has very little soil, making traditional underground nesting sites scarce.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
They had engulfed the great buildings and were slowly ripping apart the soft limestone with their roots.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
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Earth Science - Middle School
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