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Limestone hills, Cotswolds. The Cotswold hills are made of Oolitic limestone, a type of limestone made up of small round grains. These formed in shallow, warm waters like those found today around Florida and parts of the Caribbean Sea, where calcium carbonate is deposited from sea water due to evaporation.
because the limestone grew on land... [Sorry-that's wrong. It's a sedimentary rock formed under water, usually on shallow, warm sea floors, before being uplifted to form uplands by tectonic processes]... and is soft [ Some limestone is fairly soft, but not all] and easily eroded by water and acids forming caves. ...he majority of caves are in limestone. Acidic ground water (rain-water that has absorbed atmospheric carbon dioxide to form carbonic acid) dissolving the limestone as it flow â¦ s through the joints & other discontinuities in the rock mass. 4 people found this useful.