limestone
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They also did an assessment and concluded the statue is most likely limestone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The land in West Wight, home to the Isle of Wight's largest maritime heathland and rare limestone grassland will take years to recover, The National Trust has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But lately, a different demographic has flocked to its limestone cliffs: office workers from China’s big cities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
As that acidic water reacts with certain rocks -- limestone, for instance -- it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
When it flares up, I slip between two huge slabs of limestone and sidle down the tight tunnel.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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
Marls and limestones with fossils of an Eocene facies overlie the Cretaceous rocks on the Gabun.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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