After the devonian system and the mountain limestone, we come to a formation, the botanical analysis of which has made such brilliant advances in modern times.
The discoverer himself referred it to the alluvial strata which cover the mountain limestone.
The mountain limestone, or carboniferous, is distinguished from transition limestone, rather by its position than by any very wide difference in its general character or organic remains.
The first is in veins in the carboniferous or mountain limestone.
The Carboniferous, Sub-Carboniferous, or Mountain Limestone Series constitutes the general base of the Carboniferous system.
At one point we find pieces of coal shale, in another of mountain limestone, recognizable by its peculiar shells and zoophytes.
Geologically, it consists of mountain limestone superimposed on old red sandstone, which here and there comes to the surface.
A core of old red sandstone, which occasionally crops out at the surface, and through which in one spot, near Downhead, a vein of igneous rock has forced its way, is thickly coated with a crust of mountain limestone.
The rocks, however, are geologically of much interest, as upon the edge of the upturned strata of mountain limestone will be noticed horizontal layers of oolite.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mountain limestone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
