noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chalk/limestone/granite cliffs
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White chalk cliffs rose up from the sea.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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It was made of local limestone , not marble, and roughened by weather.
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Men, who comprised the primary workforce for these activities, sometimes organized independently to exploit local marble and limestone deposits.
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The portal is of local limestone and classical design, with attached Doric columns flanking the round arch.
■ NOUN
cliff
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From Port Eynon the limestone cliffs extend for five or six miles to Worms Head.
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Many feature spectacular limestone cliffs of the sort that rock climbers find irresistible.
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From Flamborough Head northwards there is a stretch of spectacular limestone cliff scenery, reaching its highest point around Bempton.
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Bristol is penetrated by calcium-loving vegetation growing on the limestone cliffs of the Avon Gorge.
■ VERB
build
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The Palace, a reconstruction of which is shown in Fig. 135, was built of limestone in a little over 10 years.
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The building was a prodigious limestone parthenon done in the early thirties in the Civic Moderne style.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Diving into woods with old limestone spoil heaps and scrubby clearings is like discovering a stash of lost gems.
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In southern Britain there are many such sudden changes mainly between clay lowlands and escarpments of chalk or oolitic limestone .
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Sections have been cut through well-preserved coral in limestone .
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Some degraded sections of higher level limestone on present reef flats may represent interglacial or Post-glacial higher sea levels.
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The limestone was deposited in very quiet water conditions, which accounts for the preservation of this delicate little fossil.
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The calcareous skeletons of this distinctive species have weathered out from the limestone matrix.
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There is little limestone left in the cave, and the existing formations tend to be dusty.
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Under dark trees outcrops of limestone form even darker shapes.