cal·car·e·ous

(kăl-kâr′ē-əs)

adj.

Composed of, containing, or characteristic of calcium carbonate, calcium, or limestone; chalky.

[From Latin calcārius, from calx, calc-, lime; see calx.]

cal·car′e·ous·ly adv.

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calcareously

(kælˈkɛərɪəslɪ)

adv

in a calcareous manner

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References in periodicals archive

al, 1994), but whether similar tests are relevant on the calcareously shelled gastropod contained in thin section is not yet known.

Insights into the late quaternary paleoenvironment of northwestern Arizona

The specimens studied have been collected from near the top of the upper Olcese Sand (Clarke and Fitch 1979:492; Huddleston and Takeuchi 2007) in a shell bed directly below a calcareously cemented sandstone that is approximately 14 m stratigraphically below a mottled siltstone of the lower Round Mountain Silt.

A new early Miocene species of Pogonias (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) based on Otoliths from California

The specimens described in this paper were found in a shell bed directly below a calcareously cemented sandstone that is approximately 14 m stratigraphically below a mottled siltstone.

First fossil record of Totoaba Villamar 1980 (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) based upon early Miocene otoliths from California with comments on the ontogeny of the saccular otolith

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