limestones
- plural of limestone.
Example Sentences
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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
The geological sequence begins with crystalline schists and limestones, followed by Palaeozoic, Triassic and Liassic rocks.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
