Maine Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Argillite (Generic type) |
Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | North America | Varies | |||
Baskahegan Lake Quartzite | Light gray to light green | East central Maine | Baskahegan Lake Formation | |||
Battie Quartzite | Clean buff colored | South central Maine | Battie Quartzite Formation | |||
Belle Lake Chert | Laminated red chert | East central Maine | Belle Lake Formation | |||
Cape Elizabeth Quartzite AKA: Elizabeth Quartzite |
Ranges from a white to a light yellow or light gray. | South central Maine | Cape Elizabeth Quartzite Formation | |||
Carrabassett Metamorphic Quartzite | Dark gray when freshly fractured weathering to a medium gray. | North central Maine | Quartzite member of the Carrabassett Formation | |||
Castine Dactite / Rhyolite | Light colored | Southeastern Maine | Castine Volcanic Formation | |||
Crystal Quartz | clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Eastern North America | ||||
Edmund Hill Ansite (Augite Andesite) |
Ranges from a medium to dark gray with phenocysts inclusions. | Northeastern Maine | Edmund Hill Andesite Formation | |||
Hinkley Point Metasediment | Ranges from a light to medium gray to a greenish gray with whitish spots. | Southeastern Maine | ||||
Kineo Porphyritic Rhyolite AKA: Kineo Flint, Mount Kineo, Traveler Rhyolite |
Ranges from a medium to dark bluish gray or and olive green with phenocysts of felsite and tuff weathering white. | Northwestern Maine | Kineo Volcanic Member of the Tomhegan Formation, Moose River Group | |||
Ledge Ridge Chert | Ranges from green to black with some pyrite rhombs. | Northwestern Maine | ||||
Misery Quartzite | Light gray with tiny veinlets of milky quartz and may be stained red by hematite . | Northwestern Maine | Misery Quartzite Formation | |||
Mount Jasper Rhyolite AKA: Neponset Rhyolite |
Flow banded spherulitic rhyolite with color ranging from an olive green to brown weathering white. | Northwestern Maine |
Moat Volcanics |
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Munsungun Chert AKA: Munsungun Lake Chert |
Diverse coloration ranging from a light gray or greenish gray to black or red weathering to a light tan or gray. | Northern Maine | Munsungun Formation | |||
Oak Bay Chert / Vein Quartz | Black chert white vein quartz | Southeastern Maine | Oak Bay 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 | ||||
Ramah Chert AKA: Mugsford Chert |
Ranges from a light gray to a frosted white with parallel black bands, black iron inclusions, and orange rust spots commonly present. | Northern Maine | ||||
Rhyolite | Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | North America | ||||
Richmond Amphibolite | Dark gray | South central Maine | Nehumkeag Pond Formation | |||
Scots Bay Chert AKA; Scots Bay Agate / Jasper, Mina Basin Chert, Parrsboro Jasper |
Ranges from most commonly a light brown to tan or a red to reddish purple with maroon streaking, milky white also occurs. | Southeastern Maine | Scots Bay Formation of the Fundy Group | |||
Touladi Chert Trout Lake Chert AKA: Cabano Chert |
Ranges from gray to a bluish gray or black
with tans also occurring. |
Northern Maine | Cabano Formation | |||
Traveler Rhyolite | Ranges from a bluish gray to light gray or bone white with phenocrysts of quarts, feldspar or garnets occurring. | Northeastern Maine | Traveller Rhyolite Pogy Member | |||
Vinylhaven Rhyolite | Ranges from a flow banded rhyolite to a spherulitic rhyolite | South central Maine | Vinylhaven Rhyolite Formation | |||
Washademoak Lake Chert AKA: Belyeas Cove Chert |
Variegated with multiple colors occurring with shades of red and gray being the predominate color. Jasper also occurs. | Southeastern Maine | Cumberland Group | |||
Wassataquoik Chert | Ranges from a medium or dark gray to greenish gray or black. Red jasper also occurs in this formation. | Northeastern Maine | Wassataquoik Chert Formation | |||
Weskeag Quartzite | Yellowish gray on freshly fractures surfaces weathering to a buff brown. | Southwestern Maine | Weskeag Member of the Rockland Formation |