List of types of limestone

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 (not a "true marble"; limestone)

Asia

India

• Kota stone
• Nimbahera 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, Spain.

Austria

• Wetterstein limestone

Belgium

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

Croatia

• Istrian stone

France

• Anstrude Roche Claire
• Buxy limestone
• Caen Stone
• Chassagne limestone
• Lutetian Limestone, or "Paris stone" (city buildings are widely faced with it)
  • Saint-Maximin, or Oise, limestone (variety of Lutetian)
• Massangis Jaune limestone
• Pierre de Jaumont
• Richemont limestone
• Saint-Nicolas limestone
• Tuffeau stone, in the Loire Valley
• Vilhonneur limestone

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)

Spain

• Gibraltar 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
• Headington stone
• Hopton Wood stone
• Kentish ragstone/Kentish rag
• Ketton stone
• Pembroke Limestone Group
• Portland Limestone
  • Portland Admiralty Roach
  • Portland Bowers Basebed
  • Portland Bowers Roach
  • Portland Grove Whitbed
  • Portland Jordans Roach
• Purbeck stone
  • Purbeck Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone)
• Sussex Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous freshwater limestone)

Scotland:

• Charlestown limestone

Wales:

• Cymerig Limestone

Mideast

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

Palestine/Israel

• Meleke
• Jerusalem stone

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
• 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
• Greenbrier Limestone
• Miami Limestone/Miami Oölite

Canada

• Eramosa marble (not a "true marble"; bituminous dolomite)
• 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
• Coquina
• Coral rag
• Chalk
• Fossiliferous limestone
• Lithographic limestone
• Oolite
• Rag-stone
• Shelly limestone
• Travertine
• Tufa

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Limestone.

• List of decorative stones
• List of sandstones
• List of types of marble

External links

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