Sentence examples for thin limestone from inspiring English sources

The Batonian Sargelu formation consists of 115 m of gray and thin limestone.

Defining the formation boundaries is largely based on the study of thin limestone beds commonly located at the base of the formation.

The Adrar cap carbonate package consists of one or two dolostone units, with an intervening siliciclastic package of up to 40 m thickness, and a laterally extensive, thin limestone bed that disconformably overlies the uppermost dolostone.

The Iron Age hill fort at Burrough Hill, Leicestershire, eastern England, lies in a lowland landscape of Mesozoic sedimentary rocks comprising mudstones with thin limestone units, sandstones and ironstones, which are blanketed by Pleistocene till.

Each side of the passageway is lined with thin limestone slabs known as orthostats, placed on end and up to 5 feet high with a coursed dry-stone infill between the slabs.

In northern Devon, at least 3,660 metres (12,000 feet) of shales, thin limestones, sandstones, and conglomerates occur.

The ARG comprises mainly of sandy shales, with thin limestones around Abakaliki to dark grey-black pyritic micaceous shales, with an estimated thickness of about 2500 m [2].

He responded with a piece of paper-thin limestone pastry, crowned with a cut-out false-mansard roof, the latter propped up by plainly conspicuous struts.

Because of thin soils, limestone sinks, steep slopes, and aridity, the Anti-Lebanon range is sparsely populated and economically useful only for nomadic herding.

The main parasequence building unit is comprised of very thick interval of marl or shale with thin morally limestone occasionally.

The most common and essential rock types are fine- to medium-grained dark grey sandstone and shale, or a sandstone and greyish green marl interlayer with greyish green thin sandy limestone, silty sandstone, silty shale and silty marl of subsidiary rank.