Limestone
Limestone is best recognized in architecture, due to the many landmarks around the world created primarily of limestone, particularly in North America and Europe. Limestone started gaining popularity during early 19th and 20th centuries. Train stations, banks and other structures from that era are usually created from limestone. It is a non-clastic sedimentary rock basically produced from the mineral calcite and sediment. The main source of limestone is the "limy ooze" shaped in oceans.
Pure limestone could be almost white. Due to its impurities, such as clay, organic remains, sand, and other materials, many limestones come in various colors, particularly on weathered surfaces. Limestone might be crystalline, clastic, granular, or huge, depending on the system of formation. Folk and Dunham classifications are described more precisely when it comes to limestones.
Travertine is a compact variety of limestone created along streams, particularly near waterfalls and around hot and cold springs. Calcium carbonate is mixed where evaporated water leaves a solution, which is supersaturated with other chemical constituents of calcite. Tufa, an absorbent or cellular form of limestone, can also be found near waterfalls. In nature, limestone is found to occur in unbalanced purity, usually as a part of the calcium molecules being restored by magnesium.
The rock holding more than 95% of calcium carbonate is known high-calcium limestone. Re-crystallized limestone takes high-quality polish and is used as a building stone. It is then known as 'marble'.
A variety of other names are related to limestone depending upon the texture, stays of foraminifera, mollusks and other shell-forming creatures. For example, oolitic, pisolitic, reostone, crinoidal, foraminiferal, calcareous ooze, bryozoa, argillaceous and hydraulic are all variations of the material known as limestone.
 A home graced with natural limestone speaks to the sophistication and discernment of its owners.
Once accessible to only the select few, the elegance of natural limestone cladding is now within reach thanks to the ALC Solution*, the pioneering product from American Limestone Company.
What is the ALC Solution?
Briefly, it’s pre-engineered natural limestone architectural elements and a revolutionary installation system employing individual or continuous anchors.
You get a better product at a lower cost with the same elegance as limestone fabricated and hung in the conventional manner.
In addition to the ALC Solution, American Limestone Company also offers a full compliment of fabrication services, including custom carved pieces and a stunning range of fireplace surrounds.
Please contact us at our Dallas offices for more information or to discuss the specifics of your project.
Contained in the Manual are details on ALC Solution standard limestone panels and elements, anchoring system planning and installation guide, examples of their application, standard profiles, floor tiles and paver designs, balustrades, and load bearing masonry.
This manual is intended as a tool for designers as well as to demonstrate the uses to which the stone elements may be put. American Limestone Company is unique in the industry in providing standardized limestone architectural elements and a patented and patent-pending anchor system.
The colors represented here are a sampling of available materials. Additional colors are available.
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| Ataija Blue Honed |
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| Bone |
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| Cabouca |
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| Cenia Stone |
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| Coffee Cream Honed |
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| Crema Gold |
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| Deauville Honed |
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| Desert Grey |
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| Gascogne Cream Honed |
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| Grey Gold |
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| Halila |
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| Jerusalem Gold |
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| Longchamp Honed |
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| Moca Cream |
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| Moca Grey |
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| Newport Antique |
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| Pietra Di Apricena Fiorita |
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| Poco Rosa |
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| Richeval Honed |
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| Roman Limestone |
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| Santenoy Honed |
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| Trani Bronzetto |
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| Vaudreil Honed |
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| Zin |
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