| 词汇 | limestone |
| 释义 | limestone noun[ U ] uk /ˈlaɪm.stəʊn/ us /ˈlaɪm.stoʊn/ a white or light grey rock that is used as a building material and in the making of cement石灰石;石灰岩 A_Pobedimskiy/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Building materials acoustic tile adobe agglomerate airbrick asphalt decking drywall fibro fixing flagged oakum particle board paving prestressed putty tile two-by-four unreinforced wattle wattle and daub You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Geology: types of rock limestone | American Dictionarylimestone noun[ U ] us/ˈlɑɪmˌstoʊn/ a gray rock formed from the shells of sea animals, used in buildings and making cement Examples of limestonelimestone Limestone fragments and a few silicified grains (chert) are present, within a calcite spar cement. The margins of some of the limestone blocks are slickensided. The combined effects of less erosion-resistant marly limestone and the columnar jointing of basalts caused the rapid migration of the knickpoint toward the upstream reach. The landscape is flat and the geology is dominated by limestone. The book is then divided into sections which cover all habitat types: coastal, freshwater, lowland rainforest and other lowland forest formations, limestone habitats and mountains. The sections also contain subordinate amounts of siltstone, limestone and dolostone. Apart from a relatively prominent limestone bed, the entire succession consists of shallow-water sandstones and subordinate mudstones. The limestone bands weather proud in cliff exposures. The matrix of the specimens is a light-grey clayey limestone. A characteristic feature is that these fields are connected with limestone massifs. The host lithologies are mudstones, siltstones, minor black limestones and subordinate sandstones, with numerous disturbed beds composed of any or all of these lithologies. The lower member (max. c. 600 m) is composed mainly of thick clay shales interbedded with thin sandy limestone beds (packstones and wackestones). The grave consisted of a simple limestone slab-lined crypt originally closed by a wooden lid sealed in place with plaster. These sediments are locally interbedded with siliceous limestone and rare thin-bedded sandstones. The limestone beds are light bluish grey, nodular to continuous and generally some 3-5 centimetres in thickness. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withlimestonelimestoneThese are words often used in combination with limestone. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. carved limestone Predominant original exterior features include carved limestone detail, numerous false chimneys, steeply pitched slate roofs, and a seven-story clock tower. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. crushed limestone I cannot pretend that crushedlimestone is used very often nowadays by farmers for correcting the acidity of their land; farmers prefer to use bought-in lime for that purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 grey limestone The lithology of the sediment is also fairly unusual in comprising clasts of finely laminated grey limestone. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with limestone |
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