New Jersey Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Allentown Chert |
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Ranges from a medium to dark gray with white streamers with banding commonly present. Oolitic and stromatolitic. | Northwestern New Jersey | Allentown Formation |
Allentown Quartzite |
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Ranges from a very light gray to a medium light gray. | Northwestern New Jersey | Allentown Formation | |
Alsen Chert |
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Mottled dark gray to a dark brownish gray. | New Jersey | Alsen Cherty Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Antietam Quartzite AKA: Erwin-Antietam Quartzite |
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Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red, a greenish brown variation is reported | Southern New Jersey | Antietam Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |
Aquia Orthoquartzite |
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Ranges from white to tan, light gray, or brown. Finer grain can range from tan to brown, gray, yellow, or red. |
Southern New Jersey | Aquia Quartzite Formation | |
Argillite (Generic type) |
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Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | North America | Varies | |
Beacon Hill Gravel Chert / Quartzite |
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Nodules of chert and yellow quartzite. | Central New Jersey | Beacon Hill Formation |
Beaver Run Chert |
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Dolomite is a sparkly black which emits a
fetid odor when struck with black and knotted chert occur. |
Northern New Jersey | Beaver Run Dolomite Member of the Ontelaunee Formation |
Becraft Chert |
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Light bluish gray to medium gray or black | New Jersey | Becraft Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Beekmantown Chert AKA: Narrows Chert |
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Dark gray often fossiliferous. | New Jersey | Beekmantown Geological Group |
Branchville Chert |
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Medium to dark gray weathering a reddish brown to buff. | Northern New Jersey | Branchville Member of the Epler Formation, Beekmantown Group |
Briarcliff Chert |
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Light with darker patches. | Northern New Jersey | Briarcliff Dolomite Formation of the Wappinger Group |
Brandywine Blue Gneiss AKA: Wilmington Blue Rock |
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Ranges from a bright blue to a bluish gray. | Southern New Jersey | Brandywine Blue Gneiss Formation of the Wilmington Complex | |
Broad Run Chalcedony AKA: Wissahickon Schist |
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Ranges in color from a mottled white to light gray or cream to yellow. Black specks are present through the material. | Southern New Jersey | Wissahickon Formation | |
Brunswick Mudstone / Siltstone |
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Primarily a dark red, but colors of purple, green, yellow, gray, and black also occur. | Central New Jersey | Passaic Formation (formerly Brunswick Formation) of the Newark Group | |
Buttermilk Falls Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Northern New Jersey | Buttermilk Falls Member of the Onondaga Limestone Formation |
Califon Chert |
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Ranges in color from black to gray or bluish gray or orange to brown and typically stained green from limonite. | Northern New Jersey | Califon Member of the Leithsville Formation |
Cecil Black Chert AKA: Newark Chert |
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Ranges from a medium gray to black | Southern New Jersey | Newark Gabbro Formation |
Coeymans Chert AKA: New Creek Chert |
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ranges in color from a bluish black to black. Cloudy patches of fine pyrite and quartz may be present. | New Jersey | Coeymans Limestone Formation (New Creek Formation), Helderberg Group |
Cohansey Orthoquartzite |
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Base color of grayish white with mottled colors including yellow to brown, orange to red, or black | Southern New Jersey | Cohansey Formation | |
Crystal Quartz |
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clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Eastern North America | ||
Cuesta Quartzite |
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Ranges in color from pale grayish brown, pink, or reddish. | Southern New Jersey | ||
Epler Chert / Dolomite |
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Ranges from a medium to dark gray. | Northern New Jersey | Epler Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Esopus Chert / Silicified Shale AKA: Cherry Valley Chert, Bowmanstown Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray or brown to a brownish black or black. | Northern New Jersey | Esopus Member of the Onondaga Limestone Formation. | |
Gettysburg Siltstone AKA: Hammer Creek Siltstone |
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Ranges from a reddish brown to maroon | Northern New Jersey | Gettysburg Formation (Hammer Creek Formation) of the Newark Group | |
Glenerie Chert AKA: Port Jervis Chert |
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Ranges from a bluish gray to black weathering brown. | Northern New Jersey | Glenerie Formation of the Onondaga Group |
Hamburg Chert |
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Ranges in color from blue to black with white quartz veins running through the material. | Northern New Jersey | Hamburg Member of the Leithsville Formation |
Hardyston Chalcedony |
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Semi translucent milky white to light blue or light to gray. | New Jersey | Hardyston Formation | |
Hardyston Jasper AKA: Berks Jasper, Lehigh Jasper, Pennsylvania Jasper, Reading Prong Jasper |
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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. | New Jersey | Hardyston Formation | |
Hardyston Quartzite |
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Ranges from a milky white to light blue to a light yellowish brown or gray. | New Jersey | Hardyston Formation | |
Harmonyvale Chert |
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Ranges from a gray to a greenish gray | Northern New Jersey | Harmonyvale Member of the Ontelaunee Formation |
Helderberg Chert |
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Ranges from mottled white to light cream, light gray, and light blue commonly mottled and fossiliferous. | New Jersey |
Helderberg Group |
Hook Mountain Basalt AKA: Watchung Basalt |
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Ranges from a light to dark greenish gray amygdaloidal basalt. | Northern New Jersey | Hook Mountain Basalt Formation of the Brunswick Group | |
Kalkberg Chert |
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Ranges in color from a grayish blue to a black. This chert is heavily cloudy by opaque patches. Clastic quartz is present | New Jersey | Kalkberg Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Kittatiny Chert |
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Ranges from a mottled light grayish brown to a dark grayish black with veinlets of light gray chalcedony. | Northern New Jersey | Kittatiny Formation |
Kittery Quartzite AKA: Cape Elizabeth Quartzite |
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Ranges from a light brown to light gray. | Northeastern New Jersey | Kittery Formation of the Merrimack Group | |
Lafayette Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black weathering an orangish gray | Northern New Jersey | Lafayette Member of the Epler Formation, Beekmantown Group |
Leithville Chert |
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Ranges in color from black to gray or bluish gray or orange to brown. white quartz veins or staining of green limonite may be present. | Northern New Jersey | Leithville Formation |
Limeport Chert |
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Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray or black, banding may be present. | Southwestern New Jersey | Limeport Member of the Allentown Formation |
Lockatong Argillite |
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Primarily a light to dark gray, greenish gray, or black, but a greenish red, grayish purple, or reddish brown may also occur | New Jersey | Lockatong Formation, Newark Group | |
New Scotland Chert AKA: Corriganville Chert, Minisink Chert |
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Ranges from a white to very light colors. | New Jersey | New Scotland Formation (Corriganville Formation) of the Helderberg Group |
Normanskill Chert AKA: Deepkill Chert, Coxsackie Chert |
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Range from a light green to a dark green or brownish green with darker bands being present. | Northern New Jersey | Mount Merino and Indian River Formations of the Normanskill Group | |
Onondaga Chert AKA: See page |
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Vary from light to dark gray to a mottled bluish gray to a dark brown or black or tan. | New Jersey | Onondaga Limestone Formation |
Ontelaunee Chert / Dolomite |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. White chert also occurs. |
Northern New Jersey | Ontelaunee Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Oriskany Solicified Sandstone |
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White | Western New Jersey | Oriskany Sandstone Formation | |
Orthoquartzite (Generic type) |
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Varies | North America | Varies | |
Port Ewen Chert |
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Ranges in color from a dark gray to black | New Jersey | Port Ewen Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Potsdam Quartzite Quartzitic sandsandstone |
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Ranges from a tan or cream to pink and rarely is almost black | Northern New Jersey | Potsdam Sandstone Formation of the Saratoga Springs Group | |
Quartz |
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Milky white with thin veins |
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Quartzite |
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Varies from white to gray, or pink and tan in color | North America | ||
Rhyolite |
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Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | North America | ||
Rickenbach Chert AKA: Crooked Swamp Chert |
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Dark gray | Northern New Jersey | Rickenbach Dolomite Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Schoharie Chert AKA: Aquetuck Chert |
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Homogenous yellowish brown to a very dark gray. | Northern New Jersey | Schoharie Member of the Onondaga Limestone Formation |
Sterling Hill Sussexite |
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Ranges from pink to a pinkish violet or red with yellow or violet occurring with reduced frequency. | Northern New Jersey | ||
Stirling Carnelian |
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Translucent and varies in shades from reddish brown to reddish orange. | Northern New Jersey | Watchung Series basalt formations | |
Unakite |
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Mottled green and pink | Tennessee , North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey | ||
Wallkill Chert |
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Ranges in color from black to bluish gray or light gray | Northern New Jersey | Wallkill Member of the Leithsville Formation |
Wissahickon Quartzite / Vein Quartz |
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gray quartzite with milky white veins of quartz. | Southern New Jersey | Wissahickon Formation |