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- noun Plural form of
dolomite .
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Also found were "additional chemical signatures of silicates, kaolin clays, pigments (TiO2), calcites, dolomites, carbonates, metal complexes (sub-micron chromium, aluminum/iron matrices) and chrysotile asbestos."
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The open, rolling, valley floor, 600-1000 feet in elevation, is generally 1000 feet and east valleys of Mississippian to Ordovician-age limestones, dolomites, and shales.
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Structurally associated with an anticline, where erosion of broken rock scooped out the linear valley, it is composed mostly of Mississippian to Ordovician-age limestones, dolomites, and shales, with some low, cherty ridges.
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The new areas comprise layers of karstified limestone with dolomites of Jurassic age.
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They contain limestone and dolomites showing Cretacic characteristics of karst formations with a broken relief.
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Scattered limestone glades occur, but are less extensive than on the dolomites of the lithologically distinct Ecoregion 39c.
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Outcrops of Gasconade dolomite with some sandstone are found throughout the region along with areas of Roubidoux sandstone, Jefferson City-Cotter dolomites and scattered Mississippian limestone outliers in the western portion.
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It is characteristically underlain by carboniferous sedimentary rock and is lithologically distinct from the limestones, calcareous shales, and dolomites of the Interior Plateau (71) and the unconsolidated coastal plain sediments of the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains (74).
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In the Inner Dinaric ranges, Triassic limestone substrates prevail, with frequent plutonic intrusions, while the outer ranges have a more complex structure, characterized by the abundance of dolomites and ultrabasic rocks.
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I was born in 1961 We spent our holidays in Italy in 1976, one week in Seis in the dolomites and one week in Grado.
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