limestone
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The Caribbean island of Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, contains thousands of limestone caves.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Even if limestone is aggregate-like, it’s still a large deal.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
The company adds limestone in wastewater treatment facilities to counter the carbon released when sewage is treated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
Every Maltese resident was to live within a 10-minute walk of green space, on an island composed largely of limestone, concrete, and the parking lot of a Lidl, that overall turns brown in the summer.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 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 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
The deposits are silver-lead, and they occur along the contact between approximately horizontal limestones and slates.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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Earth Science - Middle School
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