Sentence examples for chalky limestone from inspiring English sources

In Champagne, the best vineyards often lie in chalky limestone soils, sometimes mixed with clay.

Tangier is built on the slopes of a chalky limestone hill.

The river has cut through the resistant lava of the plateau to soft, chalky limestone beneath, creating a steep-walled gorge.

It is separated from the coastal plain by a longitudinal fosse and a belt of low hills of soft chalky limestone, about 5 to 8 miles (8 to 13 km) wide, known as Ha-Shefela.

From the valley, I headed north, on narrow, winding roads, to the Qalamoun Mountains, a voluptuous but rugged range near the Syrian border, known for its apricot trees and chalky limestone quarries.

Dan Rahimi, director of collections management at the Toronto museum, said in a telephone interview that the soft, chalky limestone box "was not structurally sound" when shipped, and that as a result, several new cracks had developed on all sides.

Lithuania possesses a range of useful mineral resources, including sulfates, notably gypsum; chalk and chalky marl; limestones; dolomites; various clays, sands, and gravels; peat; some iron ore and phosphorites; and mineral waters.

His Schloss Sommersdorf in the tiny Bavarian town of Sommersdorf is a chalky-colored limestone giant, with looming towers and a dark moat that should fulfill anyone's Dungeons & Dragons fantasy.

To build each sculpture, Mr. Goldsworthy, assisted by a crew of six stonemasons from Scotland, used carefully cut and fitted slabs of chalky white Iowa limestone to make one solid, mortarless, 8-foot high cairn, with a 21-foot circumference.

They concluded that increasing the sulfate concentration in the injection brine changed the wettability of the chalky and microcrystalline limestone used in their experiments into more water-wet.

The wines have a salty, chalky undertone, thanks to limestone soil that is similar to that of Chablis.