List of types of limestone

Summary

This is a list of types of limestone arranged according to location. It includes both formal stratigraphic unit names and less formal designations.

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


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:

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

See also edit

External links edit

  • Pivko, D. (2003) Natural stones in Earth’s history. Acta Geologica Universitatis Comenianae. vol. 58, pp. 73–86.