AKA: Mount Kineo Rhyolite, Kineo Flint,
Traveler Rhyolite

Color:  Kineo Rhyolite ranges from a medium to dark bluish gray or and olive green with phenocysts of felsite and tuff weathering white.   

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Luster:

Silica Fabrics / Fossils:

Patina: Chalk white

Heat Treatment: 

Knapping:  Conchoidal fracture
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution Comments:

Kineo Rhyolite is associated with the Kineo Volcanic Member of the Tomhegan Formation, Moose River Group of western Maine.  Primary outcroppings occur in the hills between Blue Ridge and Mount Kineo, Shaw Mountain, Little Kineo Mountain, Norcross Mountain, and Table Mountain.