Sentence examples for areas of limestone from inspiring English sources
Walking ferns are hardy plants that inhabit shady areas of limestone ledges and limey wooded areas.
Composed of 10 islands, they are primarily of volcanic formation, but areas of limestone indicate that they may once have been part of New Zealand.
Although slates and sandstones are the main rocks, there are volcanic outcrops and considerable areas of limestone where the relief is smoother, the soils more fertile, and the land more densely settled.
Our common wild rock rose, Helianthemum nummularium, is a bright yellow beauty of chalk downlands, but my favourite is the elusive white rock rose, H. apenninum, which graces two areas of limestone in Britain, around Torbay in Devon and at the seaward tip of the Mendips in Somerset.
With Spanish Galicia, northern Portugal comprises the mountainous border of the Meseta (the block of ancient rock that forms the core of the Iberian Peninsula); southern Portugal also contains extensive areas of limestone and other sedimentary strata, mostly plateaus or plains.
This interpretation omits most of the southeastern Klamath Ranges, a significant portion of the KR unique in its own right, and incorrectly includes the area in CaR, resulting in large areas of limestone and metasedimentary geology being placed in CaR, which is inconsistent with the Jepson description for that volcanic region.
The dome is a plateau area of limestone flanked by gritstones.
The stage name is derived from an area of limestone formations along the Anisus River at Grossreifling in the Austrian Alps.
Sunshine was seeing off all but a few trails of mist as we climbed Swift's Hill, an exceptional area of limestone grassland.
A simple mathematical expression to calculate reaction rate of SO2 capture per unit external surface area of limestone is proposed.
Mr. Clements said O. vermiculum was found in only a single outcropping in a karst region — an area of limestone hills and caves formed by erosion of ancient marine sediments.
