nummulitic

The enduring pyramids themselves are formed of the nummulitic limestone studded with its "Pharaoh's beans," the exuviæ of shell-fish that perished ages before the Nile had created Egypt.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

_Arrondissement_ of St. Gaudens, near the Pyrenees, a cavern was discovered in the nummulitic rock.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

The pyramids were nearly all made of nummulitic limestone composed of the remains of organic life; a material which belonged to the latest geologic ages, when whole generations and different platforms of life had come and gone.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

The Eocene, or older Tertiary, further appears with nummulitic formations on both sides of the eastern Balkans; the Oligocene only near the Black Sea coast at Burgas.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

In the year 1852, a laborer named Bonnemaison, employed in repairing roads, observed that rabbits, when hotly pursued by the sportsman, ran into a hole which they had burrowed in a talus of small fragments of limestone and earthy matter lodged in a depression on the face of a steep escarpment of nummulitic limestone which forms the bank of a small brook near the town of Auvignac.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 Various

Upper Egypt, where the cretaceous and nummulitic limestones end.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Near Edfu the sandstone is replaced by nummulitic limestones (Eocene) of the Tertiary period, which form the bulk of the Libyan desert and a considerable portion of the Arabian desert as well.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Kálachitta (black and white) chain is so called because the north side is formed of nummulitic limestone and the south mainly of a dark purple sandstone.

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894

The rock at Terrya is a nummulitic limestone, worn into extensive caverns.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

Fossil wood is found; and some of the old buildings about Chittagong contain nummulitic limestone, probably imported from Silhet or the peninsula of India, with which countries there is no such trade now.

Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864