Delaware Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Accomack Mudstone | Ranges in color from a light or medium brown to a yellowish mustard brown. | Virginia, Maryland, Delaware | Yorktown and Omar formation estuarine deposits | |||
Antietam Quartzite AKA: Erwin-Antietam Quartzite |
Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red, a greenish brown variation is reported | West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, | Antietam Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |||
Aquia Orthoquartzite |
Ranges from white to tan, light gray, or brown. Finer grain can range from tan to brown, gray, yellow, or red. |
Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware | Aquia Quartzite Formation | |||
Argillite (Generic type) |
Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | North America | Varies | |||
Beasley Bay Jasper | Ranges from a mustard yellow to a brownish yellow or red. | Virginia, Maryland, Delaware | Kent Island Formation | |||
Brandywine Blue Gneiss AKA: Wilmington Blue Rock |
Ranges from a bright blue to a bluish gray. | Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland | Brandywine Blue Gneiss Formation of the Wilmington Complex | |||
Broad Run Chalcedony AKA: Wissahickon Chalcedony |
Ranges in color from a mottled white to light gray or cream to yellow. Black specks are present through the material. | Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Wissahickon Formation | |||
Catoctin Greenstone AKA: Catoctin Metabasalt |
Ranges from a green to a greenish gray or gray. | Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware | Catoctin Formation | |||
Catoctin Metarhyolite AKA: Highland Metarhyolite |
Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, blue, or purple. Banding, mottling, or breccia with a tannish color may be present. | West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Catoctin Formation | |||
Cecil Black Chert AKA: Newark Chert |
Ranges from a medium gray to black | Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Newark Gabbro Formation | |||
Columbia Formation Quartzite | Ranges from a yellowish brown to a reddish brown. | Delaware, Maryland | Columbia Formation | |||
Crystal Quartz | clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Eastern North America | ||||
Cuesta Quartzite | Ranges in color from pale grayish brown, pink, or reddish. | Delaware, New Jersey | ||||
Hardyston Chalcedony | Semi translucent milky white to light blue or light to gray. | Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware | Hardyston Formation | |||
Hardyston Jasper AKA: Berks Jasper, Lehigh Jasper, Pennsylvania Jasper |
Ranges from a dark golden yellow to a bright red or dark brown with mottling as well as tiny veins of clear to white translucent chalcedony. | Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware | Hardyston Formation | |||
Hardyston Quartzite | Ranges from a milky white to light blue to a light yellowish brown or gray. | Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware | Hardyston Formation | |||
Heath Farm Jasper AKA: Delmarva Peninsula Jasper |
Ranges from a brownish to dark brownish black. | Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania | ||||
Iron Hill Jasper AKA: Newark Jasper |
Ranges from a mottled mustard yellow to brown, dark brown, brownish black, and red. | Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Newark Gabbo Formation | |||
Mogothy Quartzite AKA: Magothy Quartzite |
Ranges in color from gray to bluish gray or purple, banding or mottling may be present. Small fossils may give a peppered appearance. | Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Mogothy Formation | |||
Onodaga Chert AKA: See page |
Vary from light to dark gray to a mottled bluish gray to a dark brown or black or tan. | West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland (see page for full list) | Onondaga Limestone Formation | |||
Orthoquartzite (Generic type) |
Varies | North America | Varies | |||
Quartz |
Milky white with thin veins |
North America | ||||
Quartzite | Varies from white to gray, or pink and tan in color | North America | ||||
Rhyolite | Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | Eastern North America | ||||
Wissahickon Quartzite / Vein Quartz | gray quartzite with milky white veins of quartz. | Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware | Wissahickon Formation |