calcareous rock

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calcareous rock:

see limestonelimestone,
sedimentary rock wholly or in large part composed of calcium carbonate. It is ordinarily white but may be colored by impurities, iron oxide making it brown, yellow, or red and carbon making it blue, black, or gray. The texture varies from coarse to fine.
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metamorphic rock composed wholly or in large part of calcite or dolomite crystals, the crystalline texture being the result of metamorphism of limestone by heat and pressure.
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In 1911, Shell Bluff was described in the annual report of the Georgia Geologic Survey as a bluff of calcareous rock, which is sandy and argillaceous marl (Veatch and Stephenson 1911).

Shell bluff--a fossiliferous ridge, the site of the extinct oyster Crassostrea gigantissima and history of its identification

It should be pointed out that the soils in the region originated from calcareous rocks, naturally showing medium or weak acidity, Fe and Mn concretions and low P contents.

Critical levels for soil attributes in irrigated banana plantations in semiarid region/Nivel critico para atributos do solo em areas de bananeira irrigada em regiao semiarida

A major zone of alteration at a high altitude in Golo Das is associated with the calcareous rocks.

Investigation for gold and base metals mineralization and petrochemical characteristics of the rocks of Golo Das and surrounding areas District Ghizar Gilgit-Baltistan Pakistan

Nebraska is at the eastern edge of the range of this western interior species that usually occurs on exposed calcareous rocks.

Additions to the lichen flora of Nebraska

Potassium levels may be low in soils developed from, for example, calcareous rock.

Mediterranean-type sclerophyllous forests and shrub communities

The Arboretum also differed from Awenda by being in an urban setting, being heavily managed and disturbed, having mostly calcareous rocks, lacking a coastline, and the search effort for species was much greater (McMullin et al, 2014).

Lichens and allied fungi of Awenda Provincial Park, Ontario: diversity and conservation status

According to Spear (1993), T-XCO2 diagrams can be used to predict the sequence of metamorphic mineral assemblages and there are three mechanisms by which the calcareous rocks may evolve: (1) metamorphism at constant fluid composition, (2) metamorphism driven by infiltration, and (3) metamorphism in a closed system.

Ti-clinohumite in the Cienaga skarn-type mineralogy, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Massif (Colombia): occurrence and petrologic significance

1973a) described the Staurotheletum solventis from submerged calcareous rocks of the high-mountain regions of France that cannot be placed within any currently recognised alliance.

Descripcion y validacion de sintaxones europeos de la vegetacion dominada por briofitos, liquenes y algas

Calcareous rocks are the raw materials consumed by various industries and agriculture [1].

The prospects of introduction of surface miners in technology of development of deposits of contiguous seams of the limestone

This park is formed of slightly sloping hills and high calcareous rocks.

Tourist Resorts in Northern Iran

In the M-1 and M-2 wells, the rocks located in the bottom are composed of intercalations of bioclastic rocks (biocalcarenite, intracalcarenite, calcarenite) and fine-grained calcareous rocks (calcareous shale, mudstones and micrites), (middle Eocene), and have a thickness of 518 m to 883 m.

Estratigrafia sismica de la Cuenca los Cayos

At Bartel near Cleve on Eyre Peninsula, free gold was recorded in a petrological sample of highly altered brecciated calcareous rocks.