Sentence examples for massive limestone from inspiring English sources

On our left were the massive limestone cliffs of Burgess Mountain and on our right was Mount Wapta.

Just around the corner, the Central Library dominates St. Peter's Square, its massive limestone rotunda polished to a gleaming white.

After we've been going an hour, the landscape changes suddenly and dramatically, with massive limestone outcrops leaping hundreds of craggy feet out of the flat plains.

Inside the hall, Mr. Bush seemed dwarfed by the massive limestone columns, but on television he took on a larger presence, and seemed to find his footing.

Among the most elaborate conversion projects is the Apthorp, a massive limestone wedding cake that takes up a city block from Broadway to West End Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets.

Semuc Champey, which in the language of the Maya means "sacred water," is a massive limestone formation — a natural bridge — under which flows a series of stepped pools and waterfalls.

The islands of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico) are underlain by massive limestones up to 1,000 metres thick.

It does not occur in the continental shields underlain by granites and related rocks or in volcanic belts, except in certain islands where massive limestones have been deposited on or around old volcanic cones.

A bay is usually located where more easily eroded rocks, such as clays, silts, and some sandstones, are bounded by harder and more resistant formations made from igneous rocks, such as granite, or hard calcareous rocks, such as massive limestones, which are more resistant to the erosional forces of the land and sea or lake.

In massive limestones, faulting occurs in localized, narrow zones that exhibit abundant brittle deformation.

The top of the Upper Muschelkalk is composed of massive limestones rich in Terebratula over marly calcareous formations that extend over 35 m before giving way to massive crinoidal limestone beds.