List of types of limestone

Portland Admiralty Roach from a quarry face on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England.

This article lists types of limestone arranged according to generic type and location.

Generic limestone categories

Coquina from Florida.

This section is a list of generic types of limestone.

• Bituminous limestone
• Carboniferous Limestone
• Coquina
• Coral rag
• Chalk – Soft carbonate rock
• Fossiliferous limestone
• Lithographic limestone – Type of limestone with hard fine grain
• Marble – Metamorphic limestone
• Oolite
• Rag-stone
• Shelly limestone – Limestone containing many fossils
• Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs
• Tufa

The following sections include both formal stratigraphic unit names and less formal designations, although are these are not differentiated.

Africa

Egypt

Further information: Stone quarries of ancient 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

• Kota stone – Type of limestone from Rajasthan, India
• Nimbahera stone

Israel (West Bank)

• Meleke
• Jerusalem stone – Type of pale building 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.

Austria

• Wetterstein limestone

Belgium

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

Croatia

• Istrian stone – Type of limestone

France

• Caen Stone
• Lutetian limestone – Type of limestone from Paris, 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

Gibraltar

• Gibraltar Limestone

Ireland

• Kilkenny marble, not a "true marble"; fossiliferous Carboniferous limestone.

Italy

• Red Verona marble – Variety of limestone from Italy, not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone

United Kingdom

England:

• Ashford Black Marble (not a "true marble"; Carboniferous limestone)
• Bath stone – Oolitic limestone from Somerset used as a building material
• Beer Stone
• Clipsham stone, the famous London Stone is made of this.
• Collyweston stone slate (not a "true slate"; thin-bedded limestone)
• Cotham Marble – Limestone variety from Great Britain (not a "true marble"; stromatolitic limestone)
• Cotswold stone – oolitic limestone used for building and roofing in the Cotswolds
• Dent Marble (not a "true marble"; Crinoidal limestone)
• Frosterley Marble – northern England (not a "true marble")
• Hamstone – Building stone from Somerset
• Headington stone
• Hopton Wood stone – Type of limestone
• Kentish ragstone, also known as Kentish rag – Hard grey limestone in Kent, England
• Ketton stone
• Pembroke Limestone Group
• Portland stone – Limestone quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England
  • Portland Admiralty Roach – Rock type
  • Bowers Basebed
  • Portland Bowers Roach
  • Portland Grove Whitbed
  • Portland Jordans Roach – Stone variety from the Isle of Portland
• Purbeck stone – Limestone from Dorset
  • Purbeck Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous limestone)
• Sussex Marble (not a "true marble"; fossiliferous freshwater limestone)

Scotland:

• Charlestown limestone – Limestone quarrying in Charlestown, Fife, Scotland

Wales:

• Cymerig Limestone – Geologic formation in 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 – Historic stone resource in the Midwestern United States
• Greenbrier Limestone
• Harrodsburg Limestone
• Heceta Limestone – Geologic Formation in Alaska
• Hokie stone
• Indiana Limestone – Limestone quarried in Indiana, United States (Bedford limestone)
• Jeffersonville Limestone – Bedrock unit in Indiana and Kentucky, United States
• Kaibab Limestone – Geologic formation in the southwestern United States
• Kasota limestone – Type of rock in southern Minnesota
• Keyser Limestone
• Keystone
• Madison Limestone
• Michigan limestone
• Onondaga Limestone
• St. Genevieve marble (not a "true marble"; oolitic limestone)
• St. Louis Limestone – Mississippian period geologic formation in the Midwest United States
• 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

Oceania

Australia

• Tamala Limestone

New Zealand

• Oamaru stone — Hard, compact bryozoan limestone. Granular and creamy white, it usually contains traces of alumina, iron oxide, and silica.

See also

• 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.