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)
Europe
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
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
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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