List of types of limestone
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
Israel and Palestine
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
Belgium
- Belgian marble (not a "true marble"; Devonian limestone)
- Noir Belge
- Rouge Belge
Croatia
France
- Caen Stone
- 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
Ireland
- Kilkenny marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous Carboniferous limestone)granite
Italy
- Red Verona marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone)
United Kingdom
England:
- Ashford Black Marble (not a "true marble"; Carboniferous limestone)
- Bath Stone
- Beer Stone
- Clipsham stone, the famous London Stone is made of this.
- Collyweston stone slate (not a "true slate"; thin-bedded limestone)
- Cotham Marble (not a "true marble"; stromatolitic limestone)
- Cotswold stone
- Gibraltar limestone
- Headington stone
- Hopton Wood stone
- Kentish ragstone/Kentish rag
- Ketton stone
- Pembroke Limestone Group
- Portland Limestone
- Purbeck stone
- Purbeck Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone)
- Sussex Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous freshwater limestone)
Scotland:
Wales:
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
- Hokie stone
- Indiana limestone (Bedford limestone)
- Jeffersonville Limestone
- Kaibab Limestone
- Kasota limestone
- Keyser Limestone
- Keystone
- Madison Limestone
- Onondaga limestone
- Ostracod Limestone
- 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)
- Tyndall stone
Oceania
Australia
New Zealand
Generic limestone categories
Coquina from Florida.
This section is a list of generic types of limestone
See also
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External links
- Pivko, D. (2003) Natural stones in Earth’s history. Acta Geologica Universitatis Comenianae. vol. 58, pp. 73–86.
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