calcareous
Sign in to savethumb|300px|right|Calcareous sandstone in [[Seven Sisters Country Park, England]]
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- In zoology
- In botany
- In medicine
- In geology
- Marine sediments
- Calcareous soils
- List of calcareous rivers
- Man made deposits
- In electrochemistry
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thumb|300px|right|Calcareous sandstone in [[Seven Sisters Country Park, England]]
Calcareous () is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky. The term is used in a wide variety of scientific disciplines.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “calcareous” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.