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List of sandstones

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This is a list of types of sandstone that have been or are used economically as natural stone for building and other commercial or artistic purposes.

Obernkirchen Sandstone

Trans-regional

(across state borders)

  • Cornbrash Sandstone: North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony
  • Elbe Sandstone: Germany (Saxony) and the Czech Republic
  • Red Main Sandstone: Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria
  • Wealden Sandstone: Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia

Australia

University of Sydney built from Hawkesbury Sandstone

Belgium

Canada

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Devonian Sandstone at Suur Taevaskoda, Põlva County, Estonia

France

Germany

Bavaria

Adams Gate at Bamberg Cathedral, made of Burgpreppach Sandstone
Quarry in Worzeldorf (Nuremberg)
  • Abtswind Sandstone: on the Friedrichsberg near Abtswind
  • Burgpreppach Sandstone: Burgpreppach
  • Gnodstadt Sandstone: Gnodstadt near Ochsenfurt
  • Ihrlerstein Green Sandstone: Ihrlerstein near Kelheim
  • Sand Sandstone: Sand am Main
  • Trebgast Sandstone: Trebgast
  • Worzeldorf Sandstone: Worzeldorf near Nuremberg

Baden-Württemberg

Hessen

Lower Saxony

North Rhine-Westphalia

Coat of arms of the town of Anröchte made of Anröchte Stone

Rheinland-Pfalz

  • Kordel Sandstone Kordel
  • Leistadt Sandstone: Leistadt
  • Neustadt-Haardt Sandstone: Neustadt an der Weinstraße
  • Schweinstal Sandstone: Schopp
  • Udelfangen Sandstone: Udelfangen
  • Flonheim Sandstone: Flonheim
  • Obersulzbach Sandstone: Obersulzbach

Saarland

  • Britten Sandstone: near Britten

Saxony

Dresden's Zwinger Palace, made of Cotta Sandstone

Elbe sandstones:

Saxony-Anhalt

  • Nebra Sandstone: Nebra
  • Siebigerode Sandstone: Siebigerode
  • Ummendorf Sandstone: Ummendorf

Thuringia

Hungary

India

Israel/Palestine

Italy

Lesotho

  • White City Sandstone, near Maseru

Pakistan

Poland

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

South Africa

A piece of Table Mountain Sandstone
Těšínský sandstone quarry (Goulda Sandstone)

United Kingdom

United States

The Three Gossips tower in Arches National Park is Entrada Sandstone of the Colorado Plateau.

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