The stone used to build and decorate the Nîmes Amphitheater
Barutel
(compact limestone from the Hauterivian age, 120 million years ago) - quarry located 6 miles northwest of Nîmes - hard, fine-grained white, gray or yellowish limestone, - banks that were 1 yard or more and at least 3 yards long - large blocks of the Arena and of the podium of the Maison Carrée, about 60 cm tall
Roquemaillère
(very resistant compact limestone from the Hauterivian age, 120 million years ago) - quarries 0.3 to 2 miles northwest of Nîmes - white, bluish, or grayish very fine-grained very hard limestone - rock that is cracked at the surface, but solid underground and produces rubble stone and large blocks - Tour Magne, Arena (small and large facing stones), rampart, castellum
Sernhac
(porous coarse limestone from the Langhian age, 15 million years ago) - quarry located 16 miles northwest of Nîmes in the Escaunes vale near Sernhac - soft shell limestone and medium-grained sandstone in various shades of beige - inner arches of the Arena and Nîmes aqueduct near Sernhac
Lens
(fine-grained limestone from the Barremian age with Urgonian facies, 16 million years ago) - quarries located 16 to 20 miles northwest of Nîmes in the Lens Forest - firm, homogenous, fine-grained white limestone - solid rock mined in various quarries that produces blocks of all sizes - decorations of the Maison Carrée, Arena (bull heads), sculpted decorations of the Gate of Augustus
