calciferous
IPA: kˈæɫsˈɪfɝʌs
adjective
- Yielding or containing calcium, calcium carbonate or calcite.
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Examples of "calciferous" in Sentences
- The principal rock is calciferous mica schist.
- The church is built in red sandstone and calciferous sandstone.
- The church is built in calciferous sandstone with green slate roofs.
- Underlying the county is mostly in calciferous mica schist district.
- The streams that descend from Mount Dersa cut into the permeable calciferous rock formations on which the city stands.
- Does this increase the number of silicaceous diatoms which can outcompete the calciferous types, thereby reducing the biological pull-down?
- They are composed chiefly of greenish-colored fissile sandstones and calciferous grits, in which we meet a few fossils, very imperfectly preserved.
- As I understand it, increasing acidification of the oceans is destroying lifeforms whose shells are calciferous; crustaceans and the like, in other words.
- The color of the dots was made from a mixture of hematite and red hematite which was then mixed with calciferous drops of water from the caves, according to excavation technician Maria Malina.
- First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines.
- In the warm, clear, nutritious waters that surrounded the shores, coral polyps began to Sourish, and slowly they left behind them as they died their tiny calciferous skeletons, a few feet below the surface of the sea.
- The report said that by 2100 the oceans could be more acidic than they have been in millions of years, leading to the death of creatures that secrete skeletal structures like coral, shellfish, and calciferous phytoplankton.