24/7 Pet Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: limestone paving slabs ireland

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Limestone pavement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limestone_pavement

    A limestone pavement is a natural karst landform consisting of a flat, incised surface of exposed limestone that resembles an artificial pavement. [1] The term is mainly used in the UK and Ireland, where many of these landforms have developed distinctive surface patterning resembling paving blocks. [2] Similar landforms in other parts of the ...

  3. Green's Bridge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green's_Bridge

    Green's Bridge, or Greensbridge, is an elegant, Palladian -style, limestone arch bridge that crosses the river Nore in Kilkenny, Ireland. [1] The bridge is a series of five elliptical arches of high-quality carved limestone masonry with a two-arch culvert to the east. [1] [3] Its graceful profile, architectural design value, and civil ...

  4. Kilkenny marble - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilkenny_Marble

    Kilkenny marble or Kilkenny black marble is a fine-grained very dark grey carboniferous limestone found around County Kilkenny in Ireland in the "Butlersgrove Formation ", a Lower Carboniferous limestone that contains fossils of brachiopods, gastropods, crinoids and corals. [1] The first and main source was the "Black Quarry" in the townlands ...

  5. Road surface - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface

    A road being resurfaced using a road roller. Red surfacing for a bicycle lane in the Netherlands. Construction crew laying down asphalt over fiber-optic trench, in New York City. A road surface ( British English) or pavement ( North American English) is the durable surface material laid down on an area intended to sustain vehicular or foot ...

  6. Blue Lias - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Lias

    Blue Lias. The Blue Lias is a geological formation in southern, eastern and western England and parts of South Wales, part of the Lias Group. The Blue Lias consists of a sequence of limestone and shale layers, laid down in latest Triassic and early Jurassic times, between 195 and 200 million years ago. The Blue Lias is famous for its fossils ...

  7. Dalkey Quarry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey_Quarry

    Dalkey Quarry. / 53.2711; -6.1069. Dalkey Quarry ( / ˈdɔːki / DAW-kee) is a long-disused 19th century granite quarry located on Dalkey Hill in the Dublin suburb of Dalkey, which was used to build several large maritime structures in south Dublin. Since passing into public ownership in the early 20th century and becoming part of Killiney Hill ...

  8. Blarney Stone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blarney_Stone

    Blarney Stone. Coordinates: 51.929091°N 8.570564°W. The Blarney Stone. The Blarney Stone ( Irish: Cloch na Blarnan) is a block of Carboniferous limestone [1] built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, Blarney, about 8 kilometres (5 miles) from Cork, Ireland. According to legend, kissing the stone endows the kisser with the gift of the gab ...

  9. Connemara marble - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connemara_marble

    Connemara marble or "Irish green" is a rare variety of green marble from Connemara, Ireland. It is used as a decoration and building material. [1] [2] Its colour causes it to often be associated with the Irish identity, and for this reason it has been named the national gemstone of Ireland. It strongly resembles the verd antique, a green ...

  1. Ads

    related to: limestone paving slabs ireland