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Definition of Limestones

Limestone
Limestone Lime"stone` (l[imac]m"st[=o]n`), n. A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.

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- No pre-Jur****ic benthic limestones are known, probably because carbonate-s****ed plankton had not yet evolved. Limestones also form in freshwater environments...
- s****y limestones can differ in color, composition, hardness and texture depending on where the stone is formed. Generally, however, s****y limestones have...
- The Hopedale Limestones is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period. Earth sciences portal England...
- was referred to as magnesian limestone, a term now reserved for magnesium-deficient dolomites or magnesium-rich limestones. Dolomite rock is defined as...
- Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited...
- fine-grained limestone with a somewhat co****r texture. The generally accepted theory for the origin of lithographic and sublithographic limestones is that...
- Gibraltar Limestone consists of greyish-white or pale-gray compact, and sometime finely crystalline, medium to thick bedded limestones and dolomites that...
- The Monsal Dale Limestones is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period. Earth sciences portal England...
- the Visean Stage of the Carboniferous Period. It comprises a series of limestones, shales and sandstones which ac****ulated to a thickness of 2400m in the...
- extinct nautiloid cephalopod restricted to Middle Ordovician-aged marine limestones of the Baltic States and Sweden. This genus is sometimes called Orthoceratites...