Natural Building Stone in order to be suitable as building stones, a rock should have specific qualities such as capacity to stand the ravages of time and weather, requisite strength to bear strain and super-incumbent weight, attractive color and general appearance. Its structure must also be such as to allow quarrying into good sized blocks or planes. India possesses extensive deposits of different kinds of building and monumental stones. It is one of the few major countries known for the production and export of natural building stones of various coolers. The most important building stones in India are the granites, allied rocks, sandstone, limestone, slate and marble. The different types of stones are:
