Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A deposit of shells, in a more or less fragmentary condition, which has become imperfectly solidified by pressure or by the infiltration of calcareous or sandy material.
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Examples
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Dorsetshire, which provided a shell-limestone of warm, pleasing colours.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Next in succession we have the Triassic period, so called from the trio of rocks, the red sandstone, Muschel Kalk (shell-limestone), and Keuper
Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880
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Trémaïé, consists of a block of shell-limestone about twenty-five feet high, in which, twelve feet from the soil, is sculptured a semicircular headed niche, five and a half feet high by four and a half feet wide, that contains a group of three personages, a bearded man on the left of the observer, a tall woman in the centre wearing a mitre, and on the right another woman.
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