Bluestone State Park, West Virginia

Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of natural dimension or building stone varieties, including:

• basalt in Victoria, Australia, and in New Zealand
• dolerites in Tasmania, Australia; and in Britain
• feldspathic sandstone in the US and Canada
• limestone in the Shenandoah Valley in the US, from the Hainaut quarries in Soignies, Belgium, and from quarries in County Carlow, County Galway and County Kilkenny in Ireland
• slate in South Australia

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