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limestone pavement

noun

  1. geology a horizontal surface of exposed limestone in which the joints have been enlarged, cutting the surface into roughly rectangular blocks See also clint grike
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The trail runs past the 鈥淐heckerboard,鈥 a limestone pavement formation, and Jeffrey鈥檚 Cave.

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They filmed 鈥淗arry Potter and the Deathly Hallows鈥 at the top where there鈥檚 a limestone pavement, a natural geological phenomenon.

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Built on a scrubby ridge of limestone pavement, the houses of Khirbet Susiya are closely overlooked by a neighbouring Israeli settlement built on land expropriated from the villagers 鈥 illegal under international law 鈥 and, unlike the Palestinian village, connected to public services.

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He shows us "clints" and "grykes", which sound like they might be rude, but are actually the slabs and fissures of a limestone pavement.

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It will be seen hereafter that these appendages are homologous with certain organs in other Holothurians, the warts with the anchors corresponding to the limestone pavement covering or partially covering the surface of the Cuvieria, for instance, while those without anchors correspond to the so-called false ambulacra in Pentacta.

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