limestone

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

Mr. Lucas’s temple houses an Egyptian limestone relief, a sculpture of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, a substantial photography collection, and pictures by Pissarro, Renoir, Van Gogh, Léger, Picasso and Kahlo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Other tour boats skate around the limestone coast fringed with wind-blasted greenery.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

They also did an assessment and concluded the statue is most likely limestone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Instead he saw Gebu, just straightening from his inspection of the finisher’s progress on a limestone slab.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

In the localities of San Luis and Santa Bárbara there are tertiary limestones and sandstones of Eocene and miocene ages.

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper