Sentence examples for few limestone from inspiring English sources

One species, Maxburretia gracilis, is limited to a few limestone outcroppings in the Langkawi Islands off the Malay Peninsula.

Fourthly the Cenomanian deposits are composed of marl with few limestone and gypsum (Chibane and Ali-Rahmani 2015).

Few limestone blocks were taken from the landslide surface and cylindrical test specimens were prepared for uniaxial testing according to the ASTM D 4543 08.

Only a few limestone high islands are found in intraplate situations; they include the islands of Nauru and Niue, which evolved because of lithospheric flexure attributable, respectively, to volcano loading and plate convergence (Hill and Jacobson 1989; Nunn and Britton 2004).

Gray bats are found in only a few limestone caves in the southeastern United States, where their droppings, called guano, are a critical source of nutrition for other cave-dwelling creatures, sa i d Paul McKenzie, an endangered species coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Some authors use the term to describe a group of cyclothems that show some distinctive character followed by another group that have some other characteristics—i.e., one group of cyclothems with many limestone bands may be followed by another with few limestones.

To the east, it becomes the Bakoven Member, a darker, less organic shale with fewer limestone layers.

"Although the bones were scattered on a few slabs of limestone, they were in excellent condition, and much of the skull appeared to be there.

Meanwhile, he said, the gift shop had closed; three galleries lacked proper lighting; there were few exhibitions; and limestone columns in the basement of the property's Deshon-Allyn house, where Harriet Allyn grew up, and which had been an exhibition site, were crumbling.

Past a few goats, stacked limestone stone walls and tall prickly dry grass, we found a weird castle flying a German flag, white-washed farmhouses with gardens of cactus and, farther along, an old villa with chipped shutters among pine needles and bougainvillea.

Buxton has a few light industries, and limestone is quarried nearby.