South Central Region Lithic Material

Materials Identification Guide

South Central Region Lithic Material

Name	Natural	Non-heat treated points	Heat treated points	Color details	Primary found in:	Associated Formation / Member
1604 Chert Edwards Chert variation				Ranges from a gray to medium brown with tints of pink or light maroon commonly present.	Texas	Edwards Limestone Formation
Ada Petrified Wood				Colors of tan, brown, white, and black	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Antlers Sandston formation
Alibates Agatized Dolomite AKA: Alibates Flint				Primarily banded, speckles, or mottled with colors commonly ranging from red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white.	Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas	Quartermaster Formation
Andesite Generic Type					North America	Varies
Arbuckle Chert				Oolitic and ranges from a tan to a light gray color.	Oklahoma, Kansas	Arbuckle Formation, Osage Group
Argillite (Generic type)				Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray	North America
Arkansas Nocaculite				Ranges from white to light to dark grays and black, pinks to red, and tan to browns.	Arkansas, Oklahoma	Arkansas Novaculite Formation
Arnold Chert				Smoky chert	Oklahoma	Arnold Member of the Deese Formation
Atoka Argillite				Ranges in color from a dark gray to black	Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas	Atoka formation
Atoka Siltstone				Ranges from a medium to dark gray	Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas	Atoka formation
Baldy Hill Jasper AKA: Cimarron River Jasper				Mottled color from most commonly varying shades of reds and yellows.	New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma	Baldy Hill Formation
Bangor Agate AKA: St. Louis					Texas
Barren Fork Chert				Barren Fork Chert ranges from a light to medium gray or a tan.	Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma	Sallisaw Formation
Battiest Chert AKA: Smithville Chert				Ranges from a dark bluish gray to black with small white veins of quartz commonly present.	Oklahoma. Arkansas	Battiest Chert Member of the Tenmile Creek Formation, Stanley Group
Bayou Manard Chert AKA: Red Bird Chert				Black chert with white fossil specks	Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas	Bayou Menard Member of the Moorefield Formation
Big Fork Chert AKA: Bigfork Chert				Ranges from black to a dark gray	Oklahoma , Arkansas	Bigfork Formation
Black Mesa Agate / Jasper					Oklahoma
Blaylock Sandstone				Ranges in color from tan to dark gray or greenish.	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Silurian Formation
Bois d'Arc Chert				Ranges from a light bluish gray to a yellowish gray or red. Tiny black or rust color inclusions or mottling of red and gray may be present.	Oklahoma	Cravett Member of the Bois d'Arch Formation
Boley Agate				Brecciated chert / jasper with a chalcedony cement of clear, red, black or brown with fragments of green, black, white, tan, or red.	Oklahoma
Boone Chert AKA: Sallisaw Chert, Grand Falls Chert, Ti Valley Chert				Ranges from a light gray to white	Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas	Boone Limestone Formation
Brazos River Chert AKA: Brazo River Pebble Chert, Mineral Wells Chert				Most commonly light colored but green, black, yellow, and red, banding may occur.	Texas	Mineral Wells Formation
Brushy Creek Chert Edwards Chert variation				Slightly translucent and ranges in color from black to a dark medium gray.	Texas	Edwards Plateau Limestone Formation
Burlington Chert				Varies from white to gray or tan. Banding and mottling may be present	North central and east central states including Arkansas, Mississippi	Burlington Limestone Formation
Camp Colorado Chert				Ranges from a dark grayish black to black.	Texas	Camp Colorado Limestone Member of the Pueblo Formation
Canadian River Plume Agate				Plumes of red, black, and yellow.	Texas
Cannel Coal				Ranges from a dark gray to black	Texas
Carnelian (Generic Type)				Translucent and varies in shades from reddish brown to reddish orange.	North America	Varies
Catahoula Petrified Wood				Includes petrified elm, oak, hickory, and palm wood and contains shades of white, brown, cream, and tan with wood grain or rings present.	Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas	Catahoula Formation
Cherokee Chert					Kansas, Oklahoma
Cheyenne Quartzite					Kansas, Oklahoma	Cheyenne Sandstone Formation
Chickachoc Chert				Ranges in color from a rich tan to a grayish brown or black.	Oklahoma, Texas	Chickachoc Chert Member of the Wapanucka Formation
Chickasaw Creek Chert				Black with white speckles	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Chickasaw Creek Member of the Jackfork Formation
Citronelle Chert Lafayette Chert variation AKA: Calcasieu Chert				Great variation and can range form most commonly shades of brown and tan, but may range to white to pink or black.	Louisiana, Mississippi	Lafayette Gravel Formation
Cochrane Chert				Primarily a light color, but may range to black. Commonly has a breccia appearance	Oklahoma	Cochrane Member of the Chimneyhill Formation, Hunton Group
Cockfield Orthoquartzite				Shades of light gray with spotting of light brown commonly present commonly giving a mottling appearance. Red staining may be present.	Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas	Cockfield Formation, Clairborne Group
Collier Chert				Black with small white veins of quartz occasionally present	Arkansas	Collier Shale Formation
Cotter Chert AKA: Swan Creek Chert				Ranges in color from a light gray or blue with light tan to white banding.	Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma	Cotter Formation
Cowhouse Chert				Most common color is white ranging to gray or brown. Speckles, mottled, streaking, and fossiliferous hash.	Texas	Cowhouse gravels
Cow Plop Chert AKA: Scarborough Ranch Chert				Gray to brown	Texas
Crowley's Ridge Chert				Ranges from brown to tan, greyish tan, yellowish tan, or cream.	Arkansas, Missouri	Glacial Till
Crushman Chert				Mottled dark gray	Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma	Boone Limestone formation
Crystal Mountain Quartz				Ranges from a white to a light pink or light gray.	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Crystal Mountain Sandstone Formation
Dakota Quartzite AKA: Dakota Orthoquartzite				Ranges in color from reds to browns	Northern Plains states including, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma	Dakota Formation
Day Creek Chert				Ranges from a mottled very light pale blue to a grayish blue or a reddish blue. Tan and brown mottling or streaking may be present	Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	Day Creek dolomite of the Cloud Chief formation
Devil's River Chert AKA: Santa Elena Chert				Ranges from a light gray to light brown and may be brecciated.	Texas, Coahuila	Devils River Limestone Formation
Dover Chert Fort Payne variant AKA: Elco Chert				Range from a light tan to almost a black chocolate brown with swirls, bands, or streaks of light to dark	Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas	Fort Payne Formation
Edwards Plateau Chert				Ranges in color from most commonly light gray to brown or a medium gray. May have numerous short linear fossil inclusions.	Texas, Coahuila	Edwards Limestone Formation
El Sauz Chert				Predominantly light to medium gray may exhibiting mottling of pink, red, yellow, orange, purple, green and light browns.	Texas, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas	Catahoula Formation
Ellenburger Chert				Ranges from white to a light yellow or light gray.	Texas	Ellenburger Limestone Formation
Eucha Chert AKA: Spaviaw Chert, Euchaleda Chert				Banded and ranges from white to gray or yellowish gray	Oklahoma
Evant Chert				Ranges from a whitish gray to a medium gray. Mottling with shades of brown may be present.	Texas
Everton Interclastic Chert AKA: Everton Chert				Primarily a white to light brown, brown or tan. May vary from a pink-red, purple, and grey. Commonly brecciated.	Missouri, Arkansas	Everton Formation
Everton Quartzite				Ranges from a light to dark white to gray with weak banding of white and gray.	Missouri, Arkansas	Everton Formation
Felsite (Generic Type)				Generally white to light gray or reddish or tan with darker speckles being present.	Texas
Fire Engine Jasper				Red	Texas	Brazos River Gravels
Flint Hill Chert AKA fro Florence Chert type D				Wide range of colors including shades of blue and gray, whites, and browns.	Kansas, Oklahoma	Florence Limestone Member of the Barnestone Formation
Flint Hills Quartzite					Kansas, Oklahoma
Florence Chert - Type A AKA: Kay County Chert, Maple City Chert				Banded or "wood grained" and ranges in color from a buff to a yellow gray. Heat treatment produces a red color.	Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group
Florence Chert - Type B				Ranges in color from a steel gray to a bluish gray with lighter colored splotches or darker colored mottling.	Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group
Florence Chert - Type C				Homogenous gray	Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group
Florence Chert - Type D AKA: Flint Hills Chert				Ranges from gray to a buff with many thin bands of darker translucent material.	Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian
Fort Hood Chert Edwards Chert variation				Ranges from a brownish yellow to light to dark gray, banding or speckles may be present.	Texas	Edwards Limestone Formation
Foraker Chert AKA: Four Ace Chert				Light blue color with numerous snow white speckles of fossils.	Kansas, Oklahoma	Foraker Limestone Formation
Fordyce Petrified Wood				Shades of white, tan, and brown with wood grain or rings commonly present.	Arkansas
Fort Scott Chert AKA: Bixby Black Chert				Ranges from a dark bluish black to black.	Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri	Fort Scott Limestone Formation of the Henrietta (Marmaton) Group
Fortune Chert				Ranging from a light cream to olive brown or tan color with mottling of a citrine drab to grayish olive gray and white speckles	Missouri, Arkansas	Fortune Formation
Frisco Chert				Ranges from white to a light gray or light yellowish gray or pale greenish yellow.	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Frisco Limestone Formation
Georgetown Chert AKA: Texas Tortilla Chert				Varying shades of gray.	Texas	Georgetown Member of the Edwards A Formation
Grand Falls Chert Boone Chert variation				Light gray color and may vary to brown	Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas	Grand Falls Member of the Boone Formation
Guadalupe River Gravel Chert				Varies in color based on the formation that the chert was originally formed, highest concentration is Edwards Chert.	Texas	Guadalupe River Gravels
Hamilton County Chert				Ranges from a light brown to a light brownish gray or light yellowish gray, mottling may be present.	Texas
Heiner Lake Chert Edwards Chert variation				Ranges from a tan to a light blue or blue.	Texas	Edwards Limestone Formation
Hindsville Chert				Ranges from a gray bluish gray with mottling of light blue to blue, gray, and light browns.	Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri	Hindsville Limestone Member of the Batesville Formation
Ideal Quarry Chert				Ranges from a light brown to a yellowish brown or an olive gray.	Oklahoma	Ideal Quarry Member of the Chimneyhill Formation, Hunton Group
Jackfork Chert				Ranges from a medium gray to a brownish gray	Oklahoma	Jackfork Formation
Jefferson City Chert Type 1: Oolitic				Ranges from an off white to a pale blue with white oolitic speckles	Arkansas, Missouri	Jefferson City Formation
Jefferson City Chert Type 2: Banded				Ranging from a off white to a pale purple with narrow banding alternating banding of brown, blue, and purple	Arkansas, Missouri	Jefferson City Formation
Jefferson City Chert Type 3: Mottled				Ranging from a off white to a pale purple with streaking, swirling, or disturbed banding of brown, blue, and purple	Arkansas, Missouri	Jefferson City Formation
Jefferson City Chert Type 4: Dense				White with a pearly luster	Arkansas, Missouri	Jefferson City Formation
Jefferson City Quartzite				Light and dark colors of white, pink, red, brown, and gray, homogenous to weak banding or weak mottling, occasional vugs and voids are present.	Arkansas, Missouri	Jefferson City Formation
John's Valley Chert				Ranges in color from a bluish black to a gray or chocolate brown. It is a variegated or marbled chert.	Oklahoma	John's Valley Shale formation
Keokuk Chert				Ranges from a creamy white to a whitish pink with streaks or patches of whitish brown or whitish pink and reddish spots commonly present.	Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma	Keokuk Formation of the St. Joes Group
Kimmswick Chert				Opaque and gray in color. Sparse black speckles are formed by pyritiferous particles.	Missouri, Arkansas	Kimmswick Formation
Lafayette Chert				Most commonly ranges from brown to tan, greyish tan, yellowish tan, or cream, less common white and black occur. Mottling or rarely banded	Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi	Lafayette Gravel Formation
Lafayette Quartzite					Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee	Lafayette Gravel Formation
Lenora Park Chert				Light gray	Texas
Leon River Chert				Wide range of colors including shades of brown, gray, and white.	Texas, Oklahoma	Leon River Gravels (various formations)
Lindsey Bridge Chert				Ranges in color from white to tan or blue.	Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas	Lindsey Bridge Limestone Member of the Moorefield Formation
Llano River Chert				Wide range of colors including shades of brown, gray, and white.	Texas	Llano River Gravels
Manning Fused Glass				Colors of grayish white, black, red, and purple.	Texas	Manning Formation
Marble Falls Chert				Ranges from a dark gray to black	Texas	Marble Falls Limestone Formation
Mazarn Chert				Glossy black	Arkansas, Oklahoma	Mazarn Shale Formation
McKnight Chert				Ranges from a dark gray to black.	Texas	McKnight Formation of the Atascosa Group
Mill Creek Chert				Vary from white to gray, grayish brown, orange white to orange gray, or pale blue to black. Concentric banding may be present	Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas	Salem / Ullim Limestone formation
Moyers Chert				Ranges from a dark greenish gray to black	Oklahoma	Moyers Formation
Neva Chert				White	Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma	Neva Limestone Member of the Grenola Formation
Novaculite (Generic Type)				Range from white to light gray or black	Texas, Coahuila, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana	Varies
Nueces River Chert				Colors ranges from white to shades of brown or gray.	Texas	Varies
Ogallala Orthoquartzite AKA: Bijou Hills Silicified Sediment and Sugar Rock				Colors can vary, but most common colors are light to dark gray, tan, white, pink, maroon, or golden	Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas	Ogallala Formation
Ogallala Silicified Sediment AKA: Ogallala Chert				Ranges from a buff to a reddish color or gray. Quartz inclusions form speckles in the material.	Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas	Ogallala Formation
Oolagah Chert				Ranging in color from varying shades of grays to bluish gray with banding or mottling .	Oklahoma	Oolagah Limestone Formation, Tulsa Group
Osage Chert Osage Undifferentiated Chert				Ranges from a white to light gray or light brown. Occasionally gray to dark gray mottling is present.	Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas	Osage Series
Ouachita Novaculite AKA: Pinetop Chert				Range from white to light gray or black	Oklahoma	Ouachita Novaculite Formation
Owl Creek Black Chert Edwards Chert variation				Ranges from a dark gray to black, small white speckles may be present.	Texas	Edwards Limestone Formation
Palmwood AKA: Petrified Palmwood				Ranges from white to yellowish white or cream with specks or streaks of brown to yellowish brown.	Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas	Catahoula Formation
Pedernales River Amoeba Chert AKA: Amoeba Chert, Abiquiq Chert				Ranges in color from light tan to dark brown.	Texas	Edwards Limestone Formation
Penters Chert AKA: Pinters Chert				Ranges from a highly variegated ranging from medium to dark gray, bluish gray, grayish brown, or mottled ranging white to pale gray or pale brown.	Arkansas, Missouri	Penters Formation
Penters Chert Breccia				Primary color of white, gray, or brown with a variable color of white, gray, red, or brown	Arkansas	Penters Formation
Petrified Wood AKA: Agatized Wood, Opalized Wood				Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process	North America	Varies
Peoria Chert AKA: Tahlequah Chert				Primarily white but ranges to a pale yellowish what to a yellowish brown or pink	Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas	Tahlequah Member of the Moorefield Formation
Pierson Chert				Ranges in color from a mottled gray, cream, and brown to light blue or brick red	Arkansas, Missouri	Pierson Formation of the Osagean Series
Pinetop Chert AKA: Brushy Creek Chert				Ranges in color from a white to a beige or light to dark gray.	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Pinetop Formation
Pisgah Ridge Chert AKA: Tehuacana Chert				Black with small white speckles weathering white	Texas	Tehuacana Limestone Member of the Kincaid Formation
Pitkin Chert				Ranges from a dark bluish gray to black with light blue occurring. White speckles commonly present	Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas	Pitkin Limestone Formation
Plattin Chert				Ranges from a dark bluish gray to black with light blue occurring. White speckles commonly present	Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois	Plattin Formation
Polk Creek Chert				Black	Arkansas	Polk Creek Shale Formation
Potter Chert				Mottled with shades of white, gray, blue, and yellow.	Texas	Potter Member of the Ogallala Formation
Pumpkin Creek Chert				Bluish color	Oklahoma	Pumpkin Creek Limestone Formation
Ranger Chert				Brown	Texas	Ranger Limestone Member of the Brad Formation
Red River Jasper AKA: Kiamichi Chert				ranges from an orangish red to a greenish gray with iron pyrite inclusions commonly present.	Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas	Possible Woodford Formation
Reed's Spring Chert AKA: Carr Branch Chert				Opaque chert ranging in color from a bluish gray to a light gray or yellowish brown.	Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas	Reed Springs Formation
Rhyolite (Generic Type)				Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray	North America	Volcanic Activity
Root Beer Chert Edwards Chert variation				Ranges from a medium to dark brown or grayish brown and may range from homogenous to having swirls or streaking	Texas	Edwards Limestone Formation
Schroyer Chert AKA: Wreford Type B				Ranges from bluish gray to a gray and may be mottled or splotched with darker gray with speckles of small white fossils	Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma	Schroyer Member, Wrenford Limestone Formation
Skiatook Agatized Wood				Shades of white, gray, and brown with wood grain and rings commonly present.	Oklahoma
Smithville Chert				Black	Oklahoma	Smithville Chert Member of the Stanley Shale Formation
Smoky Hills Jasper AKA: Alma, Graham, Niobrara, Republican River Jasper				Vary in color from a mustard brown or caramel brown to a chalky or creamy white, less commonly red, green, or black does occur, Inclusions and dendrites may be present	Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma	Smoky Hills Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation
St. Louis Green Chert AKA: St. Louis Formation Chert				Varying shades from light gray green to yellow green	Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas	St. Louis Formation
Stanley Chert				Ranges from a dark greenish gray to black	Oklahoma	Stanley Shale Formation
Ste. Genevieve Chert AKA: Old Blue Chert				Ranges from light to medium blue, gray, and black, to olive gray and yellowish gray with gray concentric bands commonly present	Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas	Ste. Genevieve Limestone Formation
Stockweather Chert				Ranges from yellowish to a pale whitish yellow	Texas	Stockweather Limestone Member of the Pueblo Formation
Tahlequah Chert				Ranges from a white to a light gray and may have spotting of a olive gray.	Oklahoma	Tahlequa Member of the Moorefield Formation
Talihina Chert				Upper member is a stratified blue, greenish, and white while the lower member is a stratified black, bluish, and white	Oklahoma	Talihina Chert Member
Tecovas Jasper AKA: Quitague Jasper				Ranges from variegated or mottled red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white	Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma	Tecovas Formation
Tessman Ranch Wood				Colors of yellow, tan, browns, and white with rings or grains commonly present.	Texas
Three Mile Chert Wreford Chert Variant AKA: Wreford Chert type A, Fourmile Chert				Yellowish brown	Kansas, Oklahoma	Threemile Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation, Permian Group
Tuff AKA: Solidified Volcanic Ash				Contains greater than 75 volcanic ash and ranges from white to tan, gray or pink.	North America	Volcanic activity
Turkey Creek Chert				Ranges from a white to a light gray	Oklahoma	Turkey Creek Inlier
Uvalde Chert AKA: Twelvemile Creek Chert				Ranges from most commonly from tan to brown with white, blue, gray, and pink cherts also occurring.	Texas, Tamaulipas	Uvalde Gravels
Viola Chert				Ranges from a light tan color to light gray or bluish	Oklahoma	Viola Limestone Formation
Wapanucka Chert				Mottled and striated gray chert.	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Wapanucka Member of the Atoka Formation
Webber's Falls Siltstone AKA: Arkansas Argillite				Ranges from a greenish gray to dark gray or black.	Oklahoma, Arkansas	Webber's Falls Member of the Atoka Formation
Willis Chert				Great variation of color, most commonly shades of brown and tan, but may range to white to pink or black. Petrified Wood also occurs.	Texas, Louisiana, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas	Willis Gravel Formation
Woodford Chert				Ranges in color from a light gray to a light olive gray or black. Lighter variations do occur ranging from a pale yellow to a tan.	Oklahoma	Woodford Formation
Wreford Chert Type A AKA: Three Mile Chert				Ranges from a buff or tan to a grayish tan color, medium fine grain	Kansas, Oklahoma	Threemile Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation
Wreford Chert Type B AKA: Schroyer Chert				Ranges from a bluish gray to a gray and may be mottled or splotched with darker gray with speckles of small white fossils	Kansas, Oklahoma	Schroyer Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation
Wreford Chert Type C				Ranges from a brownish gray to a bluish gray or dark gray with prominent banding	Kansas, Oklahoma	Wreford Limestone Formation