Sentence examples for exposed limestone from inspiring English sources

Solutional weathering of the exposed limestone or dolomite is due both to direct rainfall onto the rock surface and to meltwater derived from winter snowpack.

South China is home to one of the largest and oldest expanses of exposed limestone in the world, weathered into intricate peaks and massive caves over the past 240 million years.

a Partially exposed limestone rock at Kitelela.

Get enough of that on some reasonably exposed limestone, and it'll begin to dissolve.

Surface water and rain do not flow far on exposed limestone as they rapidly infiltrate into the rock and soil.

The smell of Mediterranean herbs and the exposed limestone rocks makes one think of beautiful European vineyards.

The limestone residue on one of the nails clinched it for Jacobovici, he said, "because one of the nails was found in the ossuary, the other on the ground" of the burial cave, where it would have been exposed to limestone.

The site is a harsh, salty environment, so materials were selected for durability: exposed concrete, limestone and glass.

Recent erosion in the area removed the overlying shales and again exposed the limestone to groundwater action which produced collapse breccias which include fragments of the dike rock.

The limestone residue on one of the nails clinched it for Jacobovici, "because one of the nails was found in the ossuary, the other on the ground" of the burial cave, where it would be exposed to limestone.

Over a succession of ice ages, sea levels dropped some 300 feet, exposing the limestone platform that makes up the peninsula.