The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.
One significant area of research has been the origin of the crinoid calyx, which is a key feature of these organisms. A study examining the earliest known crinoids, called protocrinoids ...
Limestone pavements were formed more than 300 million years ago in the Dinantian period, when the ice sheets scraped away soil, leaving limestone rock exposed. Over time, rainfall wore away the ...
HARVEST, Ala. (WAFF) - A Limestone Correctional Facility inmate is on life support after an assault by another inmate. According to officials with the Alabama Department of Corrections, the incident ...
LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — A 58-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle wreck in Limestone County Monday. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said Donald J. Patrick, 58 from Elkmont, was ...
LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The Limestone County Emergency Management Agency took to social media to warn citizens of areas that have been closed due to debris following overnight storms.
Surface water and rain do not flow far on exposed limestone as they rapidly infiltrate into the rock and soil. Where a joint or intersection of joints has been greatly weathered or dissolved ...
The extensive trackways, which criss-cross the limestone quarry floor, represent one of the most significant dinosaur discoveries in UK history. A quarry worker made the initial discovery while ...
A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a "dinosaur highway" and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years ...