Limestone where can it be found

These buildups of limestone can be found between 30 degrees North Latitude and 30 degrees South Latitude of the globe. Another way limestone forms is through evaporation, with this type of limestone growing in caves around the world.

Some of the biggest quarries in the world, however, are in the U. When limestone forms in water, the rock becomes a collection of calcium carbonate shells and skeletons from previous lifeforms who have died on the ocean floor, and are mixed up with other rock sediments over time. This enables the rock to accumulate debris which includes said shells and skeletons, and eventually this causes a buildup of calcium carbonate. Another formation process of Limestone occurs through evaporation.

The most common place to find limestone is beneath the marine waters. Ocean conditions form the rock as organisms, animal skeletons, and calcium carbonate combine. The shells and other items build up over time and harden into a limestone deposit on a larger scale. And every part of the limestone can be utilized. It can be placed in homes, buildings, or crushed and used in the construction industry.

Some farmers even feel crushed limestone to their livestock to bolster their health. Limestone also forms through evaporation in caves where water pours through the floor. The calcium carbonate dissolved and forms deposits throughout the ceiling and wall of the cave. Limestone my be crystalline, clastic, granular, or dense, depending on the method of formation. Crystals of calcite, quartz, dolomite or barite may line small cavities in the rock.

Chert nodules are common in limestone layers especially in the Florence Limestone or Permian Age, which outcrops in the Flint Hills area from Marshall County southward to Cowley and Chautauqua counties. The shells of many animals, those that live either in the sea or in freshwater, consist of calcium carbonate calcite and aragonite.

When the animals die, their shells are left on the ocean floor, lake bottom or river bed where they may accumulate into thick deposits. Crinoidal Limestones - Crinoids are sea animals that had long stems, cup like bodies and long filter arms, that look so much like flowers that they are call sea lillies.

The stems breaks into small, disc shaped fragments. Some limestones of the Pennsylvanian and Permian aged rocks of Kansas contain so many of these stem fragments that the term crinoidal limestone describe them well. These are found extensively in eastern Kansas. The Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk is one of the few localities in western Kansas that contains beautiful specimens of stemless crinoids, in which both the bodies and the long arms are well preserved.

Fusilinid Limestones - The Fusilinid is a member of the single-celled animals call Foraminifera. These small animals, whose shells look like grains of wheat, were abundant during the Pennsylvanian and Permian periods.

Many limestone are almost solid masses of fusilinid shells. Reef-like Limestones and Shell Limestones. These limestones contain the remains of corals, brachipods, clams, oysters, bryozoans and other forms. Some of these animals lived on colonies and the remains formed lens-shaped or elongated deposits, which sometimes grew to several hundred miles in length.

We should also note that only approximately ten or fifteen percent of all sedimentary rock resources spread across some states of Nigeria are actually limestone. Top 10 most developed states in Nigeria in Now you know what to answer when you are asked, 'Where is limestone found in Nigeria?

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