Significados de calcareous rock en inglés

The mountains are quite barren here; calcareous rock predominates, with some flint.

The Morro is a calcareous rock which has been lately fortified.

No other than calcareous rock was seen upon the eastern island.

The mountain is a barren calcareous rock, of no great hardness.

We had left the brown sandstone, and once again were upon the white calcareous rock.

The diamonds have their home in beds of clay, which are usually covered with calcareous rock.

The calcareous rock is no longer visible, but is covered with a thick layer of mould.

They are scooped in the calcareous rock.

We crossed two-and-twenty times the river of Pututucuar, a rapid torrent, full of blocks of calcareous rock.

We first stopped at a spring issuing, not from the calcareous rock, but from a layer of quartzose sandstone.

From the pureness of this calcareous rock, it has been searched for in other places, but has never been found.

It is a calcareous rock, apparently formed in part of pebbles cemented together and, when burned, produces an inferior lime.

Lithophaga lithophaga is one of the commonest bivalves in the Mediterranean Sea and is present in almost every subtidal calcareous rock.

Possibly masses of brown iron-ore, included in the calcareous rock, caused a slight augmentation in the intensity of the magnetic forces.

The sandstone, on the contrary, wherever it is seated on the calcareous rock, renders the aspect of the scene less wild.

Turning southeasterly along the coast Point Nisibon is reached, where a calcareous rock formation and soil suitable for sugar planting begins.