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Things limestone often describes ("limestone ________")
- building
- deposits
- water
- nodules
- beds
- creek
- conglomerate
- breccia
- limestones
- boundary
- statue
- lexington
- strata
- clay
- shale
- discovered
- head
- mixture
- floors
- college
- bedrock
- caverns
- soil
- rock
- district
- junction
- quarry
- formation
- caves
- rocks
- sandstone
- quarries
- tempered
- weathering
- quarrying
- shales
- frieze
- plateau
- country
- county
- blocks
- hills
- marl
- dolomite
How limestone often is described ("________ limestone")
- upper
- light
- broken
- argillaceous
- red
- shelly
- secondary
- grained
- solid
- shaly
- powdered
- granular
- dense
- colored
- primitive
- white
- stratified
- reef
- coloured
- bare
- concretionary
- nodular
- bedded
- hard
- alpine
- porous
- arenaceous
- lower
- pink
- algal
- rough
- chalky
- compact
- dolomitic
- carboniferous
- crinoidal
- massive
- ordinary
- silicified
- black
- yellow
- clayey
- pale
- freshwater
- gray
- yellowish
- ferruginous
- coralline
- laminated
- oolitic
- earthy
- bearing
- marine
- thick
- bituminous
- brown
- thin
- marly
- crushed
- sandy
- water
- interbedded
- cherty
- fine
- native
- agricultural
- siliceous
- lithographic
- nummulitic
- fossiliferous
- coral
- pure
- cavernous
- cretaceous
- magnesian
- devonian
- ordovician
- coarse
- hydraulic
- blue
- impure
- dark
- grey
- soft
- local
- crystalline
- weathered
- bluish
