Sentences with phrase «limestone quarry»

Built on the site of a former limestone quarry in the stunning Texas Hill Country, La Cantera Resort & Spa offers a romantic site with perfect wedding venues for the most important day of your life.

Due to the smell and spread of disease, the overflowing cemeteries spilled their less important clientele into the caverns and old limestone quarries underneath Paris, forming what are now known as the catacombs.

LEMONT — The Lemont Park District has rejected a proposal to buy a 27 - acre former limestone quarry and turn it into a passive recreation area.

Hancock's biggest X is Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, with its megalithic, T - shaped seven - to 10 - ton stone pillars cut and hauled from limestone quarries and dated to around 11,000 years ago, when humans lived as hunter - gatherers without, presumably, the know - how, skills and labor to produce them.

In reaching these conclusions, the researchers analyzed specimens unearthed from the fossil - rich Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry near Richards Spur, Oklahoma.

Aqua Pool & Patio turned an old Berkshires limestone quarry on a 50 - acre private estate in Sheffield, Massachusetts into a heated swimming pool with all the natural rustic elements incorporated into the design.

Nearby, footprints crisscross a wall at a Bolivian limestone quarry known as Cal Orck» o.

But at the same time it opens up a new market for many of our quarries, particularly limestone quarries, as well as for tire recycling companies.

In the 1700s, the Spanish mined a nearby limestone quarry to supply whitewash for San Francisco's Presidio buildings.

Nicknamed «Stone City» because it holds some of the largest and most famous limestone quarries in the country, Bedford (pop.

The trademark of Hatakeyama's work is his photographic series depicting limestone quarries.

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«TARP consists of 110 miles of tunnels and reservoirs, which are actually old limestone quarries that capture and hold storm water and raw sewage until it can be treated at waste water treatment plants and discharged into the canals and rivers.»

Quarry Lake Park is a former limestone quarry and converted into one of the best outdoor swimming locations in the Midwest.

The fossil was discovered in a limestone quarry in southern Germany in 1861 and has been debated ever since.

The concert was held in a limestone quarry and a 65 degree breeze was coming from the caves.

In 1998, the quarry owners asked the Park District to buy the limestone quarry for $ 100,000 an acre and turn it into a recreation area.

Remnants of coke ovens and blast furnaces from the early days of the steel industry, old limestone quarries, prairie grasses and diverse wildlife are among the hidden treasures in the overgrown land set aside for the park, between Lockport and Joliet, according to planners who met this week in Joliet.

The box was supposed to contain a fossilized partial baboon skull from a limestone quarry in the country's heartland.

«Most of the exploration of the limestone quarries in that region of the country began in the second half of the 20th century,» says Tiago Simões, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta, who was also an author on the SVP talk.

In 2003, a private fossil collector made a surprising discovery in a limestone quarry near Goslar in Lower Saxony: a total of 20 dinosaur footprints imprinted on a stone slab.

The first fossil feathers were discovered in 1861 in a limestone quarry in Germany, where workers unearthed a 145 - million - year - old bird, Archaeopteryx.

There was a bidding war over a group of Ashanti studs, those Africans of renowned industry and musculature, and the foreman of a limestone quarry bought a bunch of pickaninnies in an astounding bargain.

Located in a limestone quarry on the southern coast of the Bukit Peninsula, the aircraft is about five minutes away from the stunning Pandawa Beach and just off the Raya Nusa Dua Selatan Highway.

Now a designated National Historic Site, the breathtaking gardens, once a limestone quarry, change with the seasons.

Using the École biblique images of the Holy City and Temple Mount / Haram Al - Sharif in Jerusalem as inspiration, artist Assaf Evron creates a photo - collage architecture on the gallery walls composed of two - dimensional geometric shapes and patterns cut from wallpaper printed with the artist's one - to - one, polychromatic photographs of Zekediah's Cave, a limestone quarry just beneath the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.

Her young subjects emerge in a white haze of dust from the limestone quarries that they must cut with dangerous machinery, often prone to premature death from electrocution or injury.

The possible site is currently a limestone quarry 800 metres east from the border of Ingersoll.

This is a limestone quarry and limestone is extremely porous which means anything that leaks beyond the liner is going to be sucked in by the rock and make its way into the water table.

The proposed landfill in Ingersoll would be located in an old limestone quarry, only 800 metres from the edge of a housing subdivision on the outskirts of town.

Plan and schedule maintenance projects for a limestone quarry.

The whole garden was planted over one hundred years ago on the grounds of Mr. & Mrs. Butchart's home, in a big ugly sunken pit that was formerly a limestone quarry.