List of types of limestone

This article lists types of limestone arranged according to generic type and location.

This section is a list of generic types of limestone.

The following sections include both formal stratigraphic unit names and less formal designations, although are these are not differentiated.

England: Scotland: Wales:

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

Coquina from Florida.

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

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 .

Quarried block of pink Tennessee "marble"

Blue Rock, a Tonoloway Limestone " fin ", in West Virginia, USA.