Edged by jagged limestone outcrops, it rises from the plains just outside the town of Cashel.
The coastline here is best known for its gorges and eroded limestone rock formations that protrude offshore.
Most of all, they needed timber to burn limestone in order to make cement.
Scrubbers used in thermal power plants, for instance, require limestone to capture sulphur from their exhaust.
The limestone statue of Sir James has been removed for cleaning and repair work.
Linoleum floors suddenly end in the jagged faces of limestone walls, some painted silver with sealant.
The land combines limestone, clay-limestone, slate and, further west from Mr. Gauby's estate, decomposed granite.
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The pay section includes the Lower Marcellus Shale, Purcell Limestone, and Upper Marcellus Shale.
Irish favourite Limestone Lad finished third, much to the disappointment of the large Celtic contingent.
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The circular disc of blue limestone has been set into the pavement outside Bath Abbey.
The only sound to be heard was the thwack-thwack-thwack of limestone water dripping onto rock.
The fountain-studded motor court holds up 100 cars in front of the limestone mansion.
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Florida is particularly prone to sinkholes as the entire state has limestone underneath it.
Usually this layer is a soluble carbonate rock, such as limestone or its purer form, chalk.
As every schoolboy knows, if you drop calcium carbonate (limestone, for example) into acid, it dissolves.
Parts of the building that face downtown are clad in slabs of caramel-coloured Spanish limestone.
Miyamoto fans have made pilgrimages to some of the larger limestone caves near Sonobe.
Close up, its slopes reveal stripes of vines, limestone terraces and olive groves.
The exterior was redesigned with the aim of neighborhood architectural harmony, featuring cobbled brick and limestone touches.
The 10.5 km trail threads past starkly eroded limestone slopes, rock pinnacles and cliffs pockmarked with caves.
The main site is Kaliakra, a limestone cape extending a couple of miles out to fortress ruins.
And there was some consolation for the connections of Limestone Lad when Solerina won the novice hurdle.
Excavation was under way on a new trench, on the other side of a low limestone ridge.
The coral turns white when it expels the minute organisms that live within its hard limestone core.
Suncor mines some of the limestone, too, and uses it to shore up the roads in the pit.
It is also a mountain rich in limestone and has for decades been gouged out by cement companies.
The ravine has 400m-high walls of sheer limestone, which block out the sun and silence the world outside.
The harmless bacteria - belonging to the Bacillus genus - then feed on the nutrients to produce limestone.
Iron, coal, limestone and other raw materials went in one end and finished automobiles came out the other.
The 14-storey property, sheathed in French limestone, is connected via walkway to the busy Dubai International Financial Centre.
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