List of types of limestone

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

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Africa

Egypt

Asia

Meleke in the Gerofit Formation (Turonian) near Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel. Turonian Jerusalem Stone 031612.JPG
Meleke in the Gerofit Formation (Turonian) near Makhtesh Ramon, southern Israel.

India

Camical grade Sement grade Steel grade

Israel (West Bank)

Europe

Portland Stone quarry on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. CoombefieldBlocks.jpg
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. Paleogene transgression.jpg
Transgression of the Paleogene sediments over the Wetterstein Limestone of the Silicic Superunit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia.
Gibraltar limestone: North face of Rock of Gibraltar. North face of Rock of Gibraltar.jpg
Gibraltar limestone: North face of Rock of Gibraltar.

Austria

Belgium

Croatia

France

Germany

Gibraltar

Ireland

Italy

United Kingdom

England:

Scotland:

Wales:

North America

Quarried block of pink Tennessee "marble" Tennessee-marble-block-tn1.jpg
Quarried block of pink Tennessee "marble"
Blue Rock, a Tonoloway Limestone "fin", in West Virginia, USA. BlueRock2.JPG
Blue Rock, a Tonoloway Limestone "fin", in West Virginia, USA.

United States

Canada

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Generic limestone categories

Coquina from Florida. CoquinaFlorida.jpg
Coquina from Florida.

This section is a list of generic types of limestone

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