calciferous

The air was dry and calciferous, scratching the back of Ralph's throat.

Grows in clear, flowing water coming through calciferous terrain.

It is constructed in calciferous sandstone and has a slate roof.

The church is built in blocks of calciferous sandstone and has green slate roofs.

Underlying the county is mostly in calciferous mica schist district.

St Michael's is constructed in calciferous sandstone rubble.

Close to the inner doorway a spring trickled water down the wall, leaving a huge yellow calciferous deposit in its course.

The structure and physiology of the calciferous glands of earthworms are described.

The principal rock is calciferous mica schist.

Rocks are mostly of the calciferous mica schist, except in the southeastern part, where they are granite.

Oceans absorb half of all atmospheric CO, but this turns them acidic, preventing sea creatures from building calciferous shells.

The process involved the burning of nodules of calciferous clay to form a cement which was strong and durable and could withstand damp.

The church is constructed in hammer-dressed calciferous sandstone with an ashlar plinth, pilasters and eaves.

St Michael's is constructed in red and calciferous sandstone, taken from the nearby Hadrian's Wall, with a green slate roof.

It sits upon one of the calciferous sandstone outcrops that exist around the base of the Lomond Hills.

Calciferous sandstone is a geological term relating to strata at the base of the Carboniferous formation, below the entire sequence of coal measures.

Catalogue of Analysed Calciferous Amphiboles (1968)

The oesophagus includes "calciferous glands" that maintain calcium balance by excreting indigestible calcium carbonate into the gut.

The geology of Cramond consists of calciferous sandstone, which mixed with two later sills to give the area its characteristic chocolate-brown soil.

The rocks underlying Tunbridge are entirely of the calciferous mica schist formation, with a small bed of granite, syenite and protogine in the northeastern part.

Next is a narrow range of Upper Helderberg limestone, followed by a vein of clay slate, the residue of the territory being calciferous mica schist.

It is constructed in calciferous sandstone and consists of seven octagonal steps on which is a cross base surmounted by the sundial, the brass plate of which is missing.

In the warm, clear, nutritious waters that surrounded the shores, coral polyps began to Sourish, and slowly they left behind them as they died their tiny calciferous skeletons, a few feet below the surface of the sea.

The advent of the Mid Hants Railway also known as the Watercress Line meant fresh watercress from beds by the calciferous, high, clear River Alre could be delivered to the metropolis of London and elsewhere.

At its outcrop on the west, the sill generally lies towards the base of the Carboniferous sequence, and just above the calciferous sandstone deposits and lavas, as can be seen in the upper part of the valley of the Bannock Burn.