limestone

Converse of subject

overlie: The conglomerate is in turn overlain by Carboniferous limestone.

Converse of object

• overlie: Loam overlying flaggy limestone which comes to the surface in places.
• metamorphose: The underlying geology is a gray shaly metamorphosed limestone, perhaps turbidite, interbedded with sandstone; sands and gravels fill the valleys.
• quarry: These include deep quarried limestone, slate, granite, and sandstone.
• dissolve: These thermal waters dissolving limestone well had extended the narrow fissures into cave passages through thousands of years.
• erode: The frost eroded limestone is littered with coral and sea shell fossils confirming this raised mountain was once below sea level.

Adjective modifier

• Carboniferous: The conglomerate is in turn overlain by Carboniferous limestone.
• oolitic: The walls are constructed of thin layers of oolitic limestone bonded together with a clay mortar.
• magnesian: The rock here is magnesian limestone, which is covered by glacial deposits.
• Jurassic: So many lived in our seas that sections of Jurassic limestone can be made up entirely from their massed remains.
• carboniferous: South of the Clougher Valley the carboniferous limestones have sandstone deposited on top with beds of shale contained in the sandstones.
• dolomitic: The contrasts could hardly be more extreme; stark vertical rock faces and jagged spires of dolomitic limestone hang high above green forested valleys.

Modifies a noun

• pavement: Limestone pavement is covered in a separate action plan.
• outcrop: Toward the middle of the basin a limestone outcrop has been smoothed by passing ice, forming pavement.
• cliff: The top edge of the limestone cliffs can also be seen.
• plateau: You're now on a high limestone plateau, which has the local name of High Low according to the map.
• quarry: Dudley's limestone quarries were closed in the 1920s.
• gorge: This is a deep limestone gorge, rarely filled by water.

Noun used with modifier

• durness: The surroundings encompass the most extensive exposure of Durness limestone in Britain, tho there are also areas covered by acidic drift.
• magnesium: Spreading trace elements and magnesium limestone is limited to my few improved pastures.