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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.

Contents

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)

    • India

  • Kota stone
  • Nimbahera stone

    • Palestine

  • Meleke
  • Jerusalem stone

    • Austria

  • Wetterstein limestone

    • Belgium

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

    • Croatia

  • Istrian stone

    • 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

  • 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

    • 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

    • Australia

  • Tamala Limestone

    • New Zealand

  • Oamaru stone

    • Generic limestone categories

    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

    • References

    List of types of limestone Wikipedia
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