Limestone Collection (page 9)

Greece. Tiryns. Ruins
Greece. Tiryns. Mycenaean city (3rd millennium B.C.). Upper terrace. Peloponnese

Triple-bodied Monster, know as Bluebeard. Pediment of the Hekatompedon of the Acropolis. 6th century BC. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece

Capital. Palace of Darius I
Capital from the audience hall of the Palace of Darius I (Susa). 6th century BC. Louvre Museum. Paris. France

Osiris. Temple of Hatshepsut. Deir El-Bahari. Egypt
Osiris. Polychrome limestone reliefs from the Temple of Hatshepsut. Dynasty XVIII. New Kingdom. By 1490 B.C. Deir El-Bahari. Egypt

Polychrome relief depicting god Amun-Min as pharaoh. Egypt
Egyptian Art. Polychrome relief depicting god Amun-Min as pharaoh. From Thutmose III temple in Deir el-Bahari. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Luxor Museum. Egypt

Osiride pillar of pharaoh Sesostris I. Egypt
Egyptian Art. Osiride pillar of pharaoh Senusret I, Jeperkara Senusret or Sesostris I, second king of 12th Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. Ruled between 1956 and 1910 BC. Luxor Museum. Egypt

Polychrome limestone reliefs depicting essences and perfumes vessels offering. Temple of Hatshepsut. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Egypt

Polychrome limestone reliefs depicting offerings to the gods. Papyrus flowers (a symbol of Lower Egypt). Temple of Hatshepsut. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Egypt

Treasury of Megara. Limestone pediment depicting a scene fro
Treasury of Megara. Limestone pediment that depicts a scene from gigantomachy. Late 6th century B.C. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece

Fossils of algae, plants, insects and protozoa.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Limestone Hill, Tickhill, Yorkshire
Limestone Hill, Tickhill, Doncaster, near Bawtry, Yorkshire, England. Showing Edwardian Family Group Date: 1906

Limestone Wagons, Sunderland, Northumberland
Limestone Wagons, Sunderland, near Newcastle, Northumberland, England. North Eastern Railway Date: 1920s

COLONIA, Francisco de ( -1542). SPAIN. Burgos. Church of Saint Nicholas of Bari. Altarpiece of Francisco de Colonia (? -1542) in limestone, ca.1505. Gothic art. Relief

Boats with tourists enter the cave, that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river

Limestone formations on the exit from the cave, that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river

Limestone rocks along river Chusovaya - the symbol of conquest of Siberia, the only river that flows from Asia to Europe cutting through the Ural Mountains

Rainforest and huge limestone rocks are typical in Sabang National Park. Palawan, Philippines - February

Entry to a cave that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river. 50 kilometers north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. February

A group of tourists on a boat with a guide - inside the cave that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river

Limestone formations in the cave, that features a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 km. navigable underground river, supposedly the longest navigable underground river in the world

Paris, France - General View beneath the streets
Section of the soil under a street in Paris, showing drains, water and gas supplies and caves Date: 1854

Snow on a mountainside - Dolotimes. Italy
Immense drift of snow on a mountainside in the Dolotimes, Italy Date: circa 1930s

Dolomites, Italy Date: circa 1930s

Cheddar Gorge 1930S
Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England, Britains largest natural gorge. The Gorge Cliffs are Britains largest inland limestone cliffs. Date: early 1930s

View of Mount Lycabettus, Athens, Greece from the Acropolis
Mount Lycabettus rising above Athens, Greece - view from the Acropolis. A Cretaceous limestone hill - the highest point in the city with a 19th century Chapel of St

Pygmy elephant tooth shown here next to one of normal size. Discovered around 1901 by Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951)

Limestone lamp, Magdalenian, from France
Limestone lamp of Magdalenian age, 11, 000 - 18, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic) from La Mouthe, France

Eastmanosteus, Gogo fish
The Gogo fish, Eastmanosteus, was one of the first ever fossils extracted using acid

Limestone lamp with ibex carved on back
Limestone lamp with ibex carving, of Magdalenian age, 11, 000 - 18, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic) from La Mouthe, France

Venus in limestone
Figure of a woman, or Venus, engraved in limestone, Gravettian age 22, 000 - 30, 000 years old (Upper Palaeolithic) from Abri Pataud in France. Created by Cro-Magnon man

Fossilised Mesturus verrucosus
Fossilised fish from upper Jurassic lithographic limestone, Eichstadt, Germany. 150 million years ago

Oolitic limestone
An oolitic limstone originating from Rutland, U.K showing the perfectly rounded ooliths of which it is composed. Formed in shallow, agitated marine conditions, and only in warm climates

Chrysobotris, fossil beetle
An early Cretaceous fossil beetle from the Lithographic Limestone, Lerida, Spain

Junction of granite and limestone
Fig 88 from Principles of Geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earths surface. Vol. 3 1832-33 by Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

Metaldetes
A small block of limestone, 5 cm across, from the Cambrian of South Australia, containing sectioned specimens of the archaeocyathan sponge Metaldetes

Tonguestone (sharks tooth)
A sharks tooth from the species Oxyrhina. Specimen originates from the Globigerina Limestone, Miocene period, NW Malta

Fossil prawn
Specimen of a fossilied prawn preserved in the Solnhofen Pink Limestone, Germany

Syringopora reticulata (Goldfuss), coral
A coral dating from the Carboniferous Limestone c.354-327 million years old. Kendal, Westmorland

Coccoliths
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of coccoliths, these are the limestone scales surrounding the marine phytoplankton coccolithophores

Spiral axis of Archimedes, bryozoan
Archimedes, was a bryozoan possibly living in association with an alga. From the Lower Carboniferous limestone, Iowa, USA. c. 350-330 million years old

Crinoidal limestone

Acidaspis coronata, spiny trilobite
A spiny odontopleurid Silurian trilobite from Worcestershire, England preserved in limestone. The specimen length is 2.5 cms

Travertine is a decorative rusty coloured limestone marble from Spain. Marble is metamorphosed limestone

Dizgocrinus mon, fossil crinoid
This fossil crinoid or sea-lily originates from the limestones of Keokuk, Lowa, USA

Cymatophlebia longialata, fossil dragonfly

Symmetrocapulus, limpet
Fossilised specimen of a limpet found in the Jurassic limestone of Les Moutiers en Cinglais, France. 206-142 million years old

Fossilised Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanth
Fossilised specimen of the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) found in Upper Jurassic, Lithographic Limestone, Bavaria

Limestone (right) and marble (left)
Limestone is sedimentary and marble is metamorphic in origin. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

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