A blue limestone rock occurring in certain south-western counties of England. Also attributive.
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| 释义 | the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others (26) lias1404 A blue limestone rock occurring in certain south-western counties of England. Also attributive. stone marrow1681 name for a kind of spongy limestone (= lithomarge, n.). stone marl1682 a consolidated marl; = stone marrow n. saint's head stone1763 a name for a kind of limestone. Kentish rag1769 a hard compact limestone found in Kent, used for paving and building. watericle1776 A stalactite. Also: the stone of which a stalactite is formed. kankar1793 A coarse kind of limestone found in many parts of India, in large tabular strata, or interspersed throughout the surface soil, in nodules of… Cotham1816 Used attributively to designate an argillaceous limestone having dendritic markings, also called landscape marble or stone. Also Cotham beds. mountain limestone1817 thick Carboniferous limestone, esp. that forming the Pennines of northern England. tosca1818 A soft dark-brown limestone occurring embedded and sometimes stratified in the surface formation of the Pampas. cornstone1819 A name, originally local, for an earthy concretionary limestone, mottled red and green, forming a subordinate bed in the Old Red Sandstone… burr1829 spec. A term applied by quarrymen in Dorsetshire to a soft sandy limestone, with hard silicified bosses, above the ‘Dirt bed’ in the Lower Purbeck… coral-limestone1831 coralline limestone. scar-limestone1831 a carboniferous rock occurring in the Pennine Range. Wenlock limestone1834 bavin1839 Mineralogy. Impure limestone. (? a different word). curf1839 A cherty limestone found in one of the strata of the Portland beds of stone. Solenhofen slate1841 a fine-grained variety of limestone, used esp. in lithographic printing, quarried in the upper beds of the Jurassic formation at Solenhofen. Beer stone1871 A kind of limestone used in building, obtained from Beer Head. miliolite limestone1872 a fine-grained limestone composed chiefly of miliolites. Clipsham1877 Used to designate limestone quarried in Clipsham and used for building. reef limestone1884 limestone originating in coral or other natural reefs. Hopton wood1888 Used attributively and absol. to designate a pale brownish- or greyish-white carboniferous limestone used for building and decorative purposes. thermo-calcite1888 a name for non-crystalline limestones. Kilkenny marble1930 (see quot. 1959). micrite1959 Microcrystalline calcite present as a matrix material or an interstitial constituent in some kinds of limestone; a limestone consisting chiefly of… |
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