limestone: a common sedimentry rock consisting mostly of calcium carbonate, used as a building stone and in the manufacture of lime, carbon dioxide, and cement.
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limestone
An ancient building material often covered with a coat of stucco to provide a smooth surface and painted.
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Limestone
A versatile stone found in many areas of the UK and ideal for construction use and for asphalt production.
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LIMESTONE
Rock consisting mainly of calcium carbonate, often composed of the organic remains of sea animals, as mollusks, corals, etc., and used as building stone.
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Limestone is the material of choice in areas along the Grand River bed.
a hard limestone used as a building material by the Etruscans and Romans.
Tribhanga
in Buddhist art, the "three bends posture," in which the head, chest, and lower portion of the body are angled instead of being aligned vertically.
Built of limestone, Chartres Cathedral is 112 feet (34 meters) high and 427 feet (130 meters) long.
Gothic Architecture
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Circa 1895 limestone keystone.
Contemporary clay model.
Architectural sculpture is a general categorization used to describe items used for the decoration of buildings and structure.
In addition to limestone Ottoman buildings used large quantities of antique and Byzantine marble both as columns and for decoration.
Purbeck marble
- a limestone quarried in Dorset, can be polished, hence referred to as marble.
Őlite: Granular limestone. Open joint: Wide space between faces of stones. Oratory: Private in-house chapel; small cell attached to a larger chapel. Order: One of a series of concentric mouldings.
Also, granite, sandstone, and limestone were available in abundance. These circumstances, in a cultural system conferring enormous power on rulers and priests, made possible the erection, over a long period, ...
Olite or Oolite - granular limestone.
Onager - Roman name for a Mangonel, literally a "wild ass". A light stone throwing engine, powered by a skein of twisted rope.
Open joint - wide space between faces of stones.
After the creation of the first step-pyramids, the design was modified to have smooth, limestone faces. The steps of the inner pyramid were covered in hand-chiseled limestone taken from the quarries of Aswan farther down the Nile River.
One of the materials used over the past hundred years that has been used for producing architectural columns is a fake limestone, or cast stone.
Cyclopean walls (21) -- Walls built of huge unworked limestone boulders which are roughly fitted together. Between these boulders, smaller hunks of limestone fill the interstices.
Consequently, most of the older houses in Ashfield are constructed of the local sandstone and limestone.
One of the rarest species in the world, the Devil's Hole pupfish is native to a single, unlikely habitat: Devil's Hole, a geothermal, aquifer-fed pool within a limestone cavern in Nevada's Amargosa Desert.
(lit. cushioned): Of a frieze: of bold convex profile.PurbeckA dark limestone from Purbeck in Dorset, which can be polished; used especially in the first two centuries of English Gothic architecture.Purlin ...
travertine: an Italian cream-coloured limestone, which can be polished with good effect.
trefoil: having three foils or cusps.
tribune: (1) the apse of a basilica; (2) a gallery in a church.
MARBLE
A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture.
Purbeck
A dark-coloured, shelly limestone from the Isle of Purbeck (Dorset) that can be polished to a high sheen.
Portland cement - A hydraulic cement binder for concrete made of clay and limestone
pyramidal hipped roof - A pyramid-shaped roof with four, sloping sides that meet at a point ...
soft, easily worked, high-quality sandstone or limestone
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-Bamboo, was used for the wall lathing which was coated with a mixture of clay, sand and straw fibres, or with a variety of hydrated lime made of limestone or oyster shells.
Originally the Israelites were shepherds and dwelt in tents (Gen. 47:3); but from the time of their entering Canaan they became town dwellers, and lived in houses built of the native limestone of Palestine.
This structure is entirely load-bearing granite and limestone, with no steel reinforcement.
21-23. St. Louis Union Station, c.1894.
24-25. Durango, CO.
26. Silverton, CO.
27-30. Boston, MA. Trinity Church, c. 1872-1877. H. H. Richardson, architect.
 See also: Architecture, House, Brick, Arches, Floor
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