List of types of limestone

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

The following is a list of various types of limestone according to location.

Africa

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

Europe

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Cross-section of a Carboniferous limestone bored by Jurassic organisms; borings include Gastrochaenolites (some with boring bivalves in place) and Trypanites; Mendip Hills, England; scale bar = 1 cm.

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Portland Stone quarry on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

British Isles

• Aymestry Limestone
• Bath Stone
• Blackrock (geology)
• Blisworth Limestone
• Carboniferous limestone
• Charlestown limestone
• Corallian Limestone
• Coniston Limestone
  • Headington stone
• Ketton Stone
• Lincolnshire limestone
• Portland limestone
  • Portland Admiralty Roach
  • Portland Bowers Basebed
  • Portland Bowers Lynham Whitbed
  • Portland Bowers Saunders Whitbed
  • Portland Grove Whitbed
  • Portland Hard Blue
  • Portland Independent Basebed
  • Portland Independent Bottom Whitbed
  • Portland Independent Top Whitbed
  • Portland New Independent Whitbed

Croatia

• Istrian stone

France

• Caen stone

Germany

• Solnhofen limestone

Mideast

Israel

• Meleke

North America

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Coquina from Florida.

United States

• Coquina
• Indiana limestone
  • Harrodsburg limestone
• Kaibab Limestone
• Kasota limestone
• St. Louis Limestone
• Keystone (limestone)
• Greenbrier Limestone
• Ste. Genevieve Limestone
• Madison Limestone
• Bear Gulch Limestone
• Miami Limestone

Canada

• Algonquin Limestone
• Eramosa Limestone / Eramosa Marble
• Hope Bay Limestone
• Mara Limestone
• Senesun Limestone

Bahamas

• Oolitic aragonite sand

Oceania

Australia

• Tamala Limestone
• Wallabi Limestone

New Zealand

• Oamaru stone

Generic limestone categories

• Coral rag
• Shelly limestone
• Lithographic limestone
• Chalk
• Travertine
• Tufa