limestone
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"These predators lived in a shallow tropical sea filled with small limestone islands," paper co-author Dr David Whiteside said of the two species.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Both are small, with cone-shaped shells measuring about 6 mm in length, and they live on limestone rocks where they feed on algae and lichens.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
In the occupied West Bank's arid region of Masafer Yatta, Emar made a smooth concrete floor on two caves' rough limestone ground before applying a white limewash on the brittle stone walls.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Other tour boats skate around the limestone coast fringed with wind-blasted greenery.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
They had engulfed the great buildings and were slowly ripping apart the soft limestone with their roots.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
This limestone will make just as rich soil for the farmers of the future as the limestones of other ages have made for the famous Blue-Grass region of Kentucky, for example.
From The Adventures of a Grain of Dust by Hallam Hawksworth
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Earth Science - Middle School
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