Color:  Jefferson City Quartzite ranges from a wide variety of light and dark colors of white, pink, red, brown, and gray.  Ranges from homogenous to weak banding or weak mottling.  Occasional vugs and voids are present.

Texture:  Course to medium grain

Luster:

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Distribution Comments:

Jefferson City Chert is associated with the Jefferson City Formation of the Canadian Series of Arkansas and Missouri.  Primary outcroppings occur in Randolph County, Arkansas.