limestone
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A rock consisting chiefly of calcium carbonate or carbonate of lime. It sometimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.
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A 625-square-foot prewar co-op, with inlaid hardwood floors, a living room with built-in bookshelves and a windowed eat-in kitchen, in a non-doorman walk-up limestone rowhouse.
Able-bodied males were required to work, so from 1940 to 1944 Wojtyła variously worked as a messenger for a restaurant, a manual labourer in a limestone quarry and for the Solvay chemical factory, to avoid deportation to Germany.
According to a landscape report submitted by the preservation committee and shared with The New York Times, the plan will also add two limestone walkways, one to the inner perimeter of the garden.
A band of Middle Devonian limestone runs west to east from Cremyll to Plymstock including the Hoe.
A coral table reef surrounds most of Guam, and the limestone plateau provide the source for most of the island's fresh water.
A deposit of cement was formed after an occurrence of oil shale located adjacent to a bed of limestone burned due to natural causes.