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    Calcarenite is a type of limestone that is composed predominantly, more than 50 percent, of detrital (transported) sand-size (0.0625 to 2 mm in diameter)...
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    its original size. Rocks and land at the foot of these mountains is calcarenite, coral sand, blown inland during the Pleistocene between 130,000 and...
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  • always of Precambrian age Breccia – Rock composed of angular fragments Calcarenite – Type of limestone that is composed predominantly of sand-size grains...
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    cannery on the island, bringing prosperity to many of the inhabitants. Calcarenite quarries were also opened with stone being exported to Tunisia and Libya...
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    faith, including a large number of rupestrian churches carved from the calcarenite rock of the region. These churches, which are also found in the neighbouring...
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    include the La Paz Sand Dunes, the beaches of Pagudpud, and the eroded calcarenite Kapurpurawan rock formation in Burgos. It is the birthplace of several...
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    Europe Filakovo Formation  Slovakia Europe Arjona Formation  Spain Europe Calcarenites of Sant Elm  Spain Europe  Turkey Europe Monterey Formation  United States...
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    Park of the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano. The spur is composed of yellowish calcarenite over a marl basement, all formed in the Miocene as a sea bottom. It includes...
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    and unsettled seas. As the most common building material in Sabratah, calcarenite, is highly susceptible to physical, chemical and biological weathering...
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    the physical and mechanical properties of a porous rock: San Julian's calcarenite". Engineering Geology. 167 (Supplement C): 117–127. Bibcode:2013EngGe...
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    ages. Calcareous sand grains were bound by carbonate cement to form a calcarenite limestone. Although Polynesian people were known to have settled around...
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  • bacterium from the genus of Blastococcus which has been isolated from calcarenite in Malta. Parte, A.C. "Blastococcus". LPSN. "Blastococcus saxobsidens...
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    thick, parallel to the shelf edge, consisting of hermatypic corals and calcarenites. The Miami Limestone is less than 49 ft (15 m) thick, and in general...
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  • possible azhdarchid pterosaurs. The lithology of the unit consists of calcarenite with abundant phosphatic nodules. The formation is a layer between 0...
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    shrub with serrated leaves and small white flowers and usually grows on calcarenite within 20 metres (70 ft) of the sea. Myoporum mauritianum is a low shrub...
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    («stone»). Aspra was in fact, for generations, used to cave out blocks of calcarenite (light stone, of medium strength and easy to work in the big open sky...
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    the necropolis of San Cerbone, Casone and the grotto, and the cave of calcarenite. Inside the park is an experimental archeological laboratory. There are...
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    water (platform) massive limestone and dolomite, bio-clastic limestone, calcarenite and calcilutite. The Maokou Formation at Stone Forest appears to have...
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    Columbus. It consists of a mortar structure covered by ashlar masonry (calcarenite). List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus Citations "Monastery...
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  • locally fossiliferous, calcareous siltstones, fine-grained sandstones, calcarenites, and minor biostromal limestones, conglomerates, red siltstones, and...
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    Murray-Wallace (2006) Origin of the Late Neogene Roe Plains and their calcarenite veneer: implications for sedimentology and tectonics in the Great Australian...
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  • genus Geodermatophilus which has been isolated from the surface of a calcarenite stone from the ruins of the Aqueduct of Hadrian in Tunisia. Hezbri, K;...
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    northeast of the Fucino. Corresponding to the first domain, the bryozoan calcarenites of the Langhian - Tortonian rest, while there is a gap between the upper...
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    BC. The feature that makes them unique is the large squared blocks in Calcarenite 3 m high in the lower part and a thick layer of raw or sun-dried clay...
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    building, of which the foundation rows remain, made extensive use of calcarenite available directly on the promontory, crushed into small flakes on the...
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  • with lesser amounts of shaly and argillaceous limestone, minor beds of calcarenite, and numerous thin beds of bentonite. The Assiniboine Member is topped...
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    from Canada Tamala Limestone – Unconsolidated to strongly lithified calcarenite with calcrete/kankar soils; aeolian. Locally quartzose, feldspathic,...
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    endemic to grasslands growing in calcareous soil on formations made from calcarenite (a type of limestone) west of Cádiz in Andalusia. It is currently listed...
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  • The term calcisiltite was not an original part of the calcilutite, calcarenite and calcirudite classification system for limestones, which Grabau proposed...
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    Flags Limestone in Dallas and the Bluebonnet Limestone in Waco, are calcarenites predominantly composed of disaggregated prisms of "Inoceramus" clams...
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