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[edit]

Egypt[edit]

Asia[edit]

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

India[edit]

Camical grade Sement grade Steel grade

Israel (West Bank)[edit]

  • Meleke – limestone
  • Jerusalem stone – building stone common in and around Jerusalem

Europe[edit]

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[edit]

  • Wetterstein limestone – Regional geologic formation in the Northern Limestone Alps and Western Carpathians

Belgium[edit]

Croatia[edit]

France[edit]

  • Caen Stone – Limestone quarried near Caen, France
  • Lutetian limestone – Type of limestone from Paris, or "Paris stone" (city buildings are widely faced with it)
    • Saint-Maximin – commune in Oise, France, or Oise, limestone (variety of Lutetian)
  • Pierre de Jaumont
  • Tuffeau stone – limestone rock mined in France, in the Loire Valley

Germany[edit]

  • Solnhofen limestone – Geological formation preserving rare fossils in Germany
  • Wetterstein limestone – Regional geologic formation in the Northern Limestone Alps and Western Carpathians

Gibraltar[edit]

Ireland[edit]

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

Italy[edit]

United Kingdom[edit]

England:

Scotland:

Wales:

  • Cymerig Limestone – Kapil rakak

North America[edit]

Quarried block of pink Tennessee "marble"
Blue Rock, a Tonoloway Limestone "fin", in West Virginia, USA.

United States[edit]

Canada[edit]

  • Eramosa marble – Stratigraphic unit of the Lockport Formation (not a "true marble"; bituminous dolomite)
  • Ostracod Beds – Stratigraphic Group in Western Canada (also known as the "Ostracod Limestone")
  • Tyndall stone – Trademark of limestone from Canada

Oceania[edit]

Australia[edit]

  • Tamala Limestone – Unconsolidated to strongly lithified calcarenite with calcrete/kankar soils; aeolian. Locally quartzose, feldspathic, or heavy-mineral-bearing. Located in Western Australia

New Zealand[edit]

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

Generic limestone categories[edit]

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 – Sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of fragments of shells
  • Coral rag – Limestone composed of ancient coral reef material
  • Chalk – Soft, white, porous sedimentary rock made of calcium carbonate
  • Fossiliferous limestone – Limestone containing fossils
  • Lithographic limestone – Type of limestone with hard fine grain
  • Oolite – Sedimentary rock formed from ooids
  • Rag-stone – Work done with stones that are quarried in thin pieces
  • Shelly limestone – Limestone containing many fossils
  • Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs
  • Tufa – Porous limestone rock formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water

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