Composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk.
1 In others, again, the primary crystals are siliceous, and the secondary calcareous .
2 The mountains are quite barren here; calcareous rock predominates, with some flint.
3 An incrustation of calcareous and animal matter, coating the tidal-rocks at Ascension.
4 That they, with all the calcareous stones and earths, are animal remains.
5 But little calcareous matter was found elsewhere than on the southern shores.
6 It is completely stony and rocky, and I found some calcareous spath.
7 Others shaded with vivid calcareous reflections resembled a perfect town of marble.
8 The arteries, as was anticipated, were found to have undergone calcareous degeneration.
9 Of calcareous soils we have three varieties, viz.-limestone ,limestonegravel, and marl.
10 A very hard yellow calcareous sandstone also occurred in the bank.
11 The shores of Limestone Bay are covered with small fragments of calcareous stones.
12 The tail is likewise covered with a series of calcareous rings.
13 The Morro is a calcareous rock which has been lately fortified.
14 No other than calcareous rock was seen upon the eastern island.
15 Polyzoarium foliaceous, calcareous , or horny, reticulate; cells only on one side.
16 It is wood petrified with calcareous earth, and mineralised with pyrites.
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