Collocations withlimestone

These are words often used in combination withlimestone.

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carved limestone
Predominant original exterior features include carved limestone detail, numerous false chimneys, steeply pitched slate roofs, and a seven-story clock tower.
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crushed limestone
I cannot pretend that crushed limestone is used very often nowadays by farmers for correcting the acidity of their land; farmers prefer to use bought-in lime for that purpose.
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grey limestone
The lithology of the sediment is also fairly unusual in comprising clasts of finely laminated grey limestone.
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ground limestone
He was referring there to the particularly fine grades of ground limestone.
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limestone bedrock
It supports a community of limestone glades and woodlands over limestone bedrock, and much of the landscape is rocky and rugged.
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limestone cave
Driny, a limestone cave, is the only cave open to public.
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limestone cliff
At the western end of the island a hard, grey, limestone cliff rises 80 m above the lake's level (1,912 m above sea level).
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limestone formation
The main cave is up to50 m high and about 300 m long, in limestone formation.
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limestone hill
It is situated on a small limestone hill overlooking the shallow reef that extends from the northern end of the island.
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limestone plateau
The goitered gazelle inhabits sands and gravel plains and limestone plateau.
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limestone quarry
Are limestone quarry, which are used so much for agriculture, also included?
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massive limestone
At the entrance to the valley stand massive limestone formations.
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soft limestone
Some years ago it issued a booklet on the use of coral and other soft limestone in road building.
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white limestone
The university's monumental neo-classical architecture, most of which is carved from white limestone, is a notable tourist destination in the city.
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