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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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...ith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither ... ...itants now—he could see the top of the Second National Tower, an Indi- ana limestone building of thirty-five stories. Its shining walls rose against A... ...ories high, yellow brick with glassy roof-garden above and portico of huge limestone columns below. The lobby, with its thick pillars of porous Caen s...

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... rocks? Are you interested in their geologic origin, chemical composition or how each type affects the landscape? Do you know the differences between limestone, granite and marble as building materials? You will find these and lots of other interesting facts about rocks in this second edition of Rocks and Their Origins published in 1922. The author, Grenville A. J. Cole, w...

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...d be touring the construction site of the most ambitious project of his reign, a gigantic limestone monument of a seated lion. When completed, it wo... ...oceeded ahead of schedule. King Traeus’ idea to create the stone figure from the existing limestone formation was pure genius. If we had tried to cr... ...ct it would have on his people. Traeus had gathered his subjects in front of the massive limestone creature for the official Unveiling Ceremony. Ev... ...hey saw movement. The roar had come from the Sphinx itself, and without warning the great limestone creature raised up on it on its haunches, the mo... ...s. The torchlight flickered on the walls, seem- ing to give life to the paintings. A large limestone obelisk stood in the center of the room. “Pleas... ...a, for it had never been postulated that there was anything more behind it other than the limestone body of the Sphinx. Undaunted they had set about... ... so that gives me confidence.” They ran their flashlights over every square millimeter of limestone. Even though it was daylight, the small, cramped... ...or an outline of some sort, Mitch noticed something, “Hey Alex, look here, this strata of limestone at the base of the Sphinx, the color is slightly... ...e pressure Mitch was applying. The segment of rock was several inches thick and was solid limestone. “Mitch, let’s see if we can try and pull it out...

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...ed another 1.6 million. To recover them would cost $700 million. About 1000 tons of limestone in 3700 separate pieces were quarried in Indiana to ov... ...y cards written by children were included in a bronze box that was sealed into the limestone facade of the newly rebuilt section of the Pentagon. T...

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...ted by northeast trade winds Terrain: flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone Land use: NA% arable land; NA% perma- nent crops; NA% meadows a... ...e 1.1% (1983-84); average infla- tion rate 3.8% (1984-85) Natural resources: limestone (used prima- rily for building) Agriculture: main products bana... ...n, $170 per capita; real growth, - 1.3% (1983) Natural resources: manganese, limestone, marble, gold, antimony, copper, nickel, bauxite, lead, phospha... ... resources: oil, timber, tin, copper, tungsten, lead, asbestos, some marble, limestone, precious stones; possibly chro- mium, gypsum Agriculture: acco... ...(1983) 44 Cayman Islands Natural resources: salt, basalt rock, pozzo- lana, limestone, kaolin Agriculture: main crops bananas, coffee, sugarcane, cor... ...imate: tropical marine with warm summers and cool winters Terrain: low lying limestone base sur- rounded by coral reefs Land use: 0% arable land; 0% p... ...asse-Terre is volcanic in origin with interior mountains; Grand-Terre is low limestone formation Land use: 18% arable land; 5% permanent Drops; 13% me... ...n highlands Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow coastal plains and rolling limestone plateau (Peten) Land use: 12% arable land; 4% permanent crops; ... ...P (1985) Natural resources: zinc, lead, natural gas, barite, copper, gypsum, limestone, dolo- mite, peat, silver Agriculture: livestock and dairy prod...

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...ne, Hale, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Jefferson, Lamar, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Lee, Limestone, Lowndes, Macon, Madison, Marengo, Marion, Marshall, Mobi... ...ney, Kleberg, Knox, La Salle, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Limestone, Lipscomb, Live Oak, Llano, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn, Madiso...

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...o their dainty little claws bled a little while they were carving out the limestone blocks. That was no reason to cry and complain. Can't be runni...

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...ar Trail" beKins at New Salem. A study was made of the numer- ous Devonian limestone fossils, sink holes and glacial boulders found in this vicinity. ... ... of seven species of the Goniplir)ceras oc- onrring in the Middle Devonian limestone at Berthelet, Wis. Ow- ing to the fractured slate of the specimen... ...and olive groves. The Temple of Apollo, at Olympia, built as it is of grey limestone, was at first a disappointment, but quickly the feeling was chang...

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...ht and nine feet across the shoulders. They have been carved out of the native limestone with no little skill and evidently with tools of steel, or so...

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...” I cried, “the marine deposits formed in the second period, these shales, limestones, and sandstones. We are turning away from the primary granite. W... ...” he asked. “See,” I said, pointing to the varied series of sandstones and limestones, and the first indication of slate. “Well?” “We are at the perio... .... The electric light was reflected in sparkling splendour from the schist, limestone, and old red sandstone of the walls. It might have been thought t... ...d; then came dark cherry-coloured marbles relieved by the lighter tints of limestone. The greater part of these bore impressions of primitive or- gani... ...e reflection of our lamps from the side walls. The marble, the schist, the limestone, and the sandstone were giving way to a dark and lustreless linin... ...s before man appeared, but their fossil remains, found in the argillaceous limestone called by the English the lias, have enabled their colossal struc...

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...e. It was a contrast to its neighbours on either side of its pink and gray limestone wall. On one side began the grounds of the Great Rockstone Hotel;... ...ked home his talk was all of ter- tiary formations, and coal measures, and limestones, as he extracted a hammer from his pocket, and looked perilously... ... and roof of the stable, and the great ruddy blue and white veined mass of limestone rock, turf, and bush adhering to what had been the top. There was...

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...the human countenance within its embrace must have existed there since the limestone ledges of Carrara were first made. Another bust was nearly comple... ...lock of marble,” thought Miriam, “so does our individual fate exist in the limestone of time. We fancy that we carve it out; but its ultimate shape is... ...ew, had no such sanctity as we impute to it. It was merely a sort of white limestone from Carrara, cut into convenient blocks, and worth, in that stat...

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... She put a white hand upon my shoulder and pointed towards great masses of limestone, flushing, as it were, into life. I looked. But first I noted the... ...a vast multitude of little rooms, very cool and sunny, hollowed out of the limestone of a sort of cape, very high above the sea. The whole island, you...

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...the human countenance within its embrace must have existed there since the limestone ledges of Carrara were first made. Another bust was nearly comple... ...lock of marble,” thought Miriam, “so does our individual fate exist in the limestone of time. We fancy that we carve it out; but its ultimate shape is... ...ew, had no such sanctity as we impute to it. It was merely a sort of white limestone from Carrara, cut into convenient blocks, and worth, in that stat... ...ed, we do not even know what marble means, in any sense, save as the white limestone of which we carve our mantelpieces. This rich hall of Monte Beni,... ...warms the material which it handles; whether carved marble is anything but limestone, after all; and whether the Apollo Belvedere itself possesses any...

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...n-fire, growing hotter Higher and brighter, till the walls fell in And the limestone columns where Lincoln stood Crashed like trees when the woodman f...

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...ed, we do not even know what marble means, in any sense, save as the white limestone of which we carve our mantelpieces. This rich hall of Monte Beni,... ...warms the material which it handles; whether carved marble is anything but limestone, after all; and whether the Apollo Belvedere itself possesses any...

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...was a small chamber, chilly as an ice house, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat. It was romantic and mysterious... ... place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow dragging ages, formed a lac...

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... She put a white hand upon my shoulder and pointed towards great masses of limestone, flushing, as it were, into life. I looked. But first I noted the... ...a vast multitude of little rooms, very cool and sunny, hollowed out of the limestone of a sort of cape, very high above the sea. The whole island, you...

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...r to the sluggard husbandman than any I have ever seen. For it lies all on limestone, needs no draining; the soil, everywhere of handsome depth and fi... ...de of the road. We have here passed into a region of granite, from that of limestone, and what is called gneiss. The valleys are sharper and closer,—l...

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...a throb of the heart for all the tons of chalk in Kent or all the lumps of limestone in Y orkshire? But men love England, which is made up of such thi...