List of types of limestone

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Portland Admiralty Roach from a quarry face on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England.

This is a list of types of limestone arranged according to location. It includes both formal stratigraphic unit names and less formal designations.

Africa[]

Egypt[]

• Tura limestone, used for the Great Pyramid casing stones
• Mokattam limestone; Great Pyramid core stones and head of the Great Sphinx are of the "Member III" stratum
• Galala marble (a type of limestone, not a true marble)

Asia[]

Meleke in the Gerofit Formation (Turonian) near Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel.

India[]

• Kota stone
• Nimbahera stone – Type of stone

Israel (West Bank)[]

• Meleke
• Jerusalem stone

Europe[]

Portland Stone quarry on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

Transgression of the Paleogene sediments over the Wetterstein Limestone of the Silicic Superunit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia.

Gibraltar limestone: North face of Rock of Gibraltar.

Austria[]

• Wetterstein limestone

Belgium[]

• Belgian marble, (not a "true marble"; Devonian limestone)
• Noir Belge
• Rouge Belge

Croatia[]

• Istrian stone

France[]

• Caen Stone – Limestone quarried near Caen, France
• Lutetian limestone, or "Paris stone" (city buildings are widely faced with it)
  • Saint-Maximin, or Oise, limestone (variety of Lutetian)
• Pierre de Jaumont
• Tuffeau stone, in the Loire Valley

Germany[]

• Solnhofen limestone
• Wetterstein limestone

Ireland[]

• Kilkenny marble, not a "true marble"; fossiliferous Carboniferous limestone.

Italy[]

• Red Verona marble, not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone

United Kingdom[]

England:

• Ashford Black Marble (not a "true marble"; Carboniferous limestone)
• Bath stone – Oolitic limestone from Somerset used as a building material
• Beer Stone
• Clipsham stone, the famous London Stone is made of this.
• Collyweston stone slate – Traditional limestone roofing material of central England (not a "true slate"; thin-bedded limestone)
• Cotham Marble (not a "true marble"; stromatolitic limestone)
• Cotswold stone
• Dent Marble (not a "true marble"; Crinoidal limestone)
• Gibraltar Limestone
• Hamstone – Building stone from Somerset
• Headington stone
• Hopton Wood stone
• Kentish ragstone, also known as Kentish rag
• Ketton stone
• Pembroke Limestone Group
• Portland stone – Limestone quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
  • Portland Admiralty Roach – Rock type
  • Bowers Basebed
  • Portland Bowers Roach
  • Portland Jordans Roach
• Purbeck stone – Limestone from Dorset
  • Purbeck Marble – Fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone)
• Sussex Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous freshwater limestone)

Scotland:

• Charlestown limestone

Wales:

• Cymerig Limestone

North America[]

Quarried block of pink Tennessee "marble"

Blue Rock, a Tonoloway Limestone "fin", in West Virginia, USA.

United States[]

• Anamosa Limestone
• Bear Gulch Limestone
• Columbus Limestone
• Cottonwood Limestone
• Greenbrier Limestone
• Harrodsburg Limestone
• Heceta Limestone – Geologic Formation in Alaska
• Hokie stone
• Indiana Limestone – Limestone quarried in Indiana, United States (Bedford limestone)
• Jeffersonville Limestone
• Kaibab Limestone – Permian geologic formation
• Kasota limestone – Type of rock in southern Minnesota
• Keyser Limestone
• Keystone
• Madison Limestone
• Onondaga Limestone – Hard limestones rock formation in North America
• St. Genevieve marble (not a "true marble"; oolitic limestone)
• St. Louis Limestone
• Tennessee marble (not a "true marble"; crystalline limestone)
• Tonoloway Limestone

Canada[]

• Eramosa marble (not a "true marble"; bituminous dolomite)
• Ostracod Beds (also known as the "Ostracod Limestone")
• Tyndall stone

Oceania[]

Australia[]

• Tamala Limestone

New Zealand[]

• Oamaru stone

Generic limestone categories[]

Coquina from Florida.

This section is a list of generic types of limestone

• Bituminous limestone
• Carboniferous Limestone – Limestone deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period
• Coquina – Sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of fragments of shells
• Coral rag
• Chalk – Soft, white, porous sedimentary rock made of calcium carbonate
• Fossiliferous limestone
• Lithographic limestone – Type of limestone with hard fine grain
• Oolite – Sedimentary rock formed from ooids
• Rag-stone – Work done with stones that are quarried in thin pieces
• Shelly limestone
• Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs
• Tufa – Porous limestone rock formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water

See also[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limestone.

• List of decorative stones – Wikipedia list article
• List of sandstones – Wikipedia list article
• List of types of marble – Wikipedia list article

External links[]

• Pivko, D. (2003) Natural stones in Earth’s history. Acta Geologica Universitatis Comenianae. vol. 58, pp. 73–86.