limestone : Idioms & Phrases

• a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap.

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Cliff" lime"stone`

Definitions

1. (Geol.) A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.

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• (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

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• crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.

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• a limestone which contains some clay, and which yields a quicklime that will set, or form a firm, strong mass, under water.

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• (Geol.), a fresh-water limestone, largely composed of the agglomerated cases of caddice worms, or larvæ of caddice flies (Phryganea). It is found in Miocene strata of Auvergne, France, and some other localities.

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• noun yellow-green fern of rocky areas of northern hemisphere
  Gymnocarpium robertianum; northern oak fern.
  

WordNet

• noun similar to Shasta salamander; lives in cliff crevices and taluses
  Hydromantes brunus.
  

WordNet

• (Min.), a compact, fine-grained limestone, obtained largely from the Lias and Oölite, esp. of Bavaria, and extensively used in lithography.

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• . (Min.) See Dolomite.

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• (Geol.), a building stone, one of the group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic shells.

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• (Geol.), a series of marine limestone strata below the coal measures, and above the old red standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology.

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• (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed largely of the shells of Pentamerus.

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• (Min.), a coarsely crystalline marble.

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