Meanings of carboniferous limestone in English

Like the lower coals of Scotland, the Russian coals are found in the carboniferous limestone.

It is one great sheet of old coral-reef and coral-mud, which is now called the carboniferous limestone.

Wherever it is found, it lies on the top of the "mountain," or carboniferous limestone.

Then the tide sneaks in. The hens move on to a sea-cliff traverse, follow my leader-style across vertical carboniferous limestone.

This story, as far as the history of the earth was concerned, was soon told; the cliffs were of gray carboniferous limestone.

All three are isolated remnants of an entire layer of millstone grit that once lay on top of the older carboniferous limestone.

Coal is found overlying the carboniferous limestone of the Cantabrian chain, the seams being from 5 feet to 8 feet thick.

Carboniferous limestone: Lower carboniferous.

Crossing the Ohio River from the southern Indiana cave region, the counties of Kentucky lying in the belt of lower Carboniferous limestone were next visited.

"That there," she glibly rattled off, "is the organic remains of a three-toed woolly bronsolumphicus of the carboniferous limestone, or Upper Silurian trilobite period.

"Captain de Saint-Avit and Lieutenant Ferrières," reads the official dispatch, "will proceed to Tassili to determine the statigraphic relation of Albien sandstone and carboniferous limestone.