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

Asia

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

India

Camical grade Sement grade Steel grade

Israel (West Bank)

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

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.

Austria

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

Belgium

Croatia

France

  • 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

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

Gibraltar

Ireland

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

Italy

United Kingdom

England:

Scotland:

Wales:

  • Cymerig Limestone – Kapil rakak

North America

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

United States

Canada

  • Eramosa marble – Stratigraphic unit of the Lockport Formation (not a "true marble"; bituminous dolomite)
  • Ostracod Beds – stratigraphical unit in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (also known as the "Ostracod Limestone")
  • Tyndall stone

Oceania

Australia

  • 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

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

Generic limestone categories

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 – highly fossiliferous limestone
  • Travertine – Form of limestone deposited by mineral springs
  • Tufa – Porous limestone rock formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.