Sentence examples for limestone country from inspiring English sources

Northward lies a belt of limestone country of varying width, most prominent in the Kikori River Lake Kutubu area.

It has involved trialling new techniques to build up the most important populations across the chalk and limestone country of lowland southern England.

The traditional name applies to the distinctive limestone country of the central Pennines, where the gritstone-capped summits of Ingleborough, Pen-y-Ghent, and Whernside exceed 2,000 feet (610 metres) in elevation.

It speaks for those who have never left, as well as those who have abandoned, limestone country: "If it form the one landscape that we, the inconstant ones,/ Are constantly homesick for, this is chiefly/ Because it dissolves in water".

Karst (limestone country) that has some surface drainage often includes streams that are spatially intermittent; frequently it also contains temporally intermittent streams that flow only when heavy rain raises the groundwater table and reactivates outlets above the usual level.

Lowland central Clare has drained and embanked areas of former salt marsh along the Shannon and Fergus estuaries, and around Galway Bay the limestone country merges into the central Irish lowland.

Networks of valleys arise suddenly and disappear in spots, like the sinkholes in limestone country--clear evidence that underground water carved many martian channels, says planetary geologist Michael Carr of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California.

The Trinity has never been much-loved like the Guad, the San Marcos or the Frio — the state's most popular recreational rivers, all of which are fed by artesian springs bubbling out of rocky Hill Country limestone and run relatively swift and clear.

The 3.84 ha botanical gardens were formed in 1887 and contain one of the finest collections of plants on limestone in the West Country.

The purpose of the study is to promote Portland-limestone cement in countries where these cements are not usually used.

The place he keeps coming back to is in the south-central part of the state, in a region noted for tobacco and immense limestone caves and, some say, country ham.