Calcareous

(adj.) composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk .

法耶手打

• At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• I did not find coal mines under the calcareous rocks in Derbyshire. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The calcareous remains of marine animals in the solid body of the earth bear witness of a period to which no other species of chronology is able to remount. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

校对:奥菲莉娅