Sentence examples for limestone shelf from inspiring English sources

The flat, porous limestone shelf of the peninsula is penetrated by thousands of sinkholes, or cenotes, filled with fresh water.

By far the most vulnerable state is Florida, the new analysis found, with roughly half of the nation's at-risk population living near the coast on the porous, low-lying limestone shelf that constitutes much of that state.

In the wild, it is confined to the water above a limestone shelf 4 metres long and 2 wide in the Devils Hole, a curious desert pond in Nevada, near Death Valley.

The limestone shelf is wide and slightly angled instead of having a narrow, deep channel characteristic of most rivers.

Why we love it: An ethereal, 100,000-year-old limestone shelf and crystalline waters underscore the natural grandeur of this Nature Conservancy protected beach on Jupiter Island.

Although the limestone shelf appears to be flat, there are slight rises called pinnacles and depressions caused by the erosion of limestone by the acidic properties of the water.

Cutting through a shallow canyon, the Pedernales River tumbles down a series of limestone shelves, with the water collecting in turquoise pools among giant boulders.

Only 45 minutes by freeway from downtown Los Angeles, the Landrys found thrusting limestone shelves and outcroppings worthy of stagecoach westerns -- and the attendant threat of wildfire, which makes eucalyptus trees go up like a torch.

Lead and zinc deposits occur in Triassic shelf limestones at Blei Hill in western Germany.

The lowermost calcarenite beds above the Emperador Limestone represent open-shelf, neritic conditions.

By all rights, there shouldn't be farming here at all, because just beneath the soil is a hard shelf of limestone.