Sentence examples for rare limestone from inspiring English sources

Among them was the Euphronios krater, depicting a scene from the "Iliad," which awed visitors to the Met for decades, and a rare limestone and marble statue of a Greek goddess, which the Getty purchased for $18 million in 1988.

He kept in touch with airport managers about the fate of its 1950s flooring, made from a rare, fossil-rich limestone from a now-closed quarry on a duke's estates in Derbyshire.

Its wooden floors, a rare Dade County pine, and limestone fireplace in the living room are original.

At higher paleolatitudes, limestone is rare, and clastic rocks dominate the succession (the progressive sequence of rocks).

From Ramallah in the north to Beersheba in the south, the high plateau of Judaea is a rocky wilderness of limestone, with rare patches of cultivation, as found around Al-Bīrah and Hebron.

Limestone is rare in the Franciscan Complex and much less abundant than chert (Sliter 1984).

As noted earlier, limestone is rare in the Franciscan Complex and most of it is part of basalt-limestone-clastic sequences.

In our study area, calcium rich limestone support rare bats, endemic cave invertebrates and an array of uncommon herbs.

The horizon represents a shallow marine environment consisting of massive limestones with rare traces of bioturbation and turbulences.

When Fisher and his colleagues screened Mallorcan midwife toads across the island, they found that the disease existed in epidemic proportions in two limestone gorges, was rare in two more gorges, and was nonexistent at about 17 more sites.

We used demographic surveys and controlled experiments with a dispersal-limited and endangered ecotonal plant, Astragalus bibullatus, to test the hypothesis that woody encroachment from the forest matrix threatens rare plants in globally imperiled limestone cedar glades.