Color:  Cuesta Quartzite ranges in color from pale grayish brown, pink, or reddish.

Texture: Course to medium grain

Luster: Dull

Translucency: 

Silica Fabrics / Fossils:

Patina:

Heat Treatment:  Heat treatment produces a reddish color, increases the luster, and causes the larger silica particles to "sparkle". 

Knapping:  Difficult to knap in raw form, but quality improves with repetitive heat treatments.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution Comments:

Cuesta Quartzite has primary outcroppings along the divide of the inner and outer coastal plains of New Jersey.  Cuesta Quartzite is named after the cuesta (a gentle ground slope with a steep face or cliff on the upper edge) that separated the Inner and Outer Coastal Plains of New Jersey.  Geological formation not provided.