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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.
In the South Island, limestone is present in Buller, Nelson, and the West Coast, including the Pancake Rocks at Punakaiki in Oligocene-Early Miocene times (34-15 Ma). Many of New Zealand's limestone deposits were formed in relatively cool seas.ew Zealand was earlier part of the super-continent of Gondwana, along with South America, Africa, Madagascar, India, Antarctica and Australia.