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 (West Bank)
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
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 – An 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
- 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
- Bowers Basebed
- Portland Bowers Roach
- Portland Grove Whitbed
- Portland Jordans Roach
- Purbeck stone
- 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:
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 – Limestone quarried in Indiana, United States (Bedford limestone)
- Jeffersonville Limestone
- Kaibab Limestone
- Kasota limestone
- Keyser Limestone
- Keystone
- Madison Limestone
- Onondaga 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)
- Ostracod Beds (also known as the "Ostracod Limestone")
- Tyndall 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 – A sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of fragments of shells
- Coral rag
- Chalk – A soft, white, porous sedimentary rock made of calcium carbonate
- Fossiliferous limestone
- Lithographic limestone
- Oolite – Sedimentary rock formed from ooids
- Rag-stone – Work done with stones that are quarried in thin pieces
- Shelly limestone
- Travertine – A form of limestone deposited by mineral springs
- Tufa – Porous limestone rock formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water
See also
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- 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.
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