oolitic limestone in a sentence
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- Brown's Folly is situated on steep west-facing slopes which overlook the oolitic limestone strata of Jurassic age.
- Their new subdivision was named Elmira, and oolitic limestone gates announced the entrance to the new community.
- Another form taken by calcite is oolitic limestone, which can be recognized by its granular ( oolite ) appearance.
- "Tourist village " after tourist village sits cheek by jowl where once there were white beaches of chalky oolitic limestone.
- The "'Venus of Willendorf "'is an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.
- The site is situated on a west-facing slope of a shallow valley of the Cotswolds to the south of Oolitic Limestone.
- The site is notable for containing both the oolitic limestone of the northern Cotswolds, and the fossil-bearing limestone found further south.
- The fine grained oolitic limestone that is quarried from this site is covered by a layer of Mitchell limestone in some places.
- The plateau is formed from the Greater Oolitic Limestone with formations including Forest Marble, Bath Oolite, Twinhoe Beds and Combe Down Oolite.
- The limestone is a fine grained oolitic limestone formed in shallow water lagoons in the Bathonian Age about 167 million years ago.