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The stone that makes up the cliff face is known as limy sandstone, a sedimentary rock.
Tayside is famed for its raspberries, although no one is sure whether their good taste is due to the climate or the limy soil.
They live in open, dry and limy soil, primarily on dune slopes and stoney surfaces, such as walls.
Similar to Iron the lack of Manganese is most probable in alkaline or limy soils whereas it is easily available in acid soils.
Hojiblanca is very well adapted to this type of limy soil, since olive trees require large amounts of calcium from the soil.
This Cinsault comes from old vines grown in between St Jean de Fos and Puechabon on limy clay soil having lots of big pebbles.
They grow on limy clay soil a bit more fertile than for the reds and close to the Mas ZĂ©nitude.
Soil characteristics: healthy soil, largely of the reddish-brown and limy types, with a high calcium carbonate content.
Many areas with limy soil turn into flower carpets from april to june, due to the orchids growing here.
The Carignan grapes originate from very old vines on our best soil being limy clay with a lot of pebbles.
I'm not sure whether my soil is limy or suitable for rhododendrons.
In 1994, the Williston region's oil industry was focussed on such a reservoir: the Madison, a limy formation that sits on top of the Bakken.
The stem consists of limy disks, and the body has an internal skeleton of close-fitting limy plates.
Mantos also formed at the lower contact of the Mochito shale, a 150 metre thick limy siltstone unit some 550 metres above the base of Atima limestone.
The internal skeleton of the sea star consists of limy plates.
In fact, about the only thing it won't put up with is a limy soil.
The chardonnays of this vintage had quite intense fruit and the more limy plots were marked by a very attractive minerality, medium density in the mouth, and quite good aromatic persistence.
Managanese availability is reduced in limy and soils with high organic matter and its deficiency can be seen in necrotic leave tips and dark stains on the leaves.
Iron deficiency is most likely to occur in alkaline or limy soils and may be induced by an excess of lime, deficient drainage or a high concentration of metal ions in the soil or nutritive solution.
Efficient and stable Iron EDDHA chelate for the prevention and correction of iron chlorosis in all types of conditions, even in limy and alkaline soils.
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I put in it first some limy incrustations with which certain springs in my neighborhood cover the dead clumps of rushes.
These rocks preserve, by the fossils they contain, a great variety of shellfish which had limy skeletons.
These limy fossils might not be seen at all, were they not bedded in shales, which are very fine-grained.
The living corals one sees in the shallow water of the Florida coast to-day are building land by building up their limy skeletons.
The tires of the wheels, in their even and rapid course, left wide parallel tracks on the limy mud of the highway.
The rocks that contain it crumble because the limy portions have been dissolved out.
It is discovered in a limy stratum at the Brazils, I find, but rarely, and always waterworn.
Like stivalis, bicolor does not thrive on limy soils and it is difficult to propagate from cuttings.
These eggs are about the size of those of a goose, and are covered with a limy shell.
It has special adaptation for being grown on calcareous or limy soils.
It is worse in light and limy soils but is only skin deep so won't affect your potatoes if you peel them.
Dominated by refreshing limy citrus flavours, it's poles apart from the Helderberg sauvignon in terms of intensity.
In acid soils, flowers will be blue or purple and on limy soils, pink or red.
The BC member is composed almost entirely of black quartzose argillite, siltite and phyllite, and includes very minor limy argillites and a few dark grey quartzites.
There, in three or four fathoms of water, between the reefs of Pacou and Vanou, lay anchors, cannons, pigs of lead and iron, embedded in the limy concretions.
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