Texas Lithic Material
Name |
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Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
1604 Chert Edwards Chert variation |
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Ranges from a gray to medium brown with tints of pink or light maroon commonly present. | South central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation |
Abo Sandstone |
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Laminated sandstone that ranges from a tan to a dark red or purple | West Texas | Abo Sandstone Formation | |
Agate Jasper (Generic Type) |
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Ranges from yellow to brown or green. Part if the material will be banded and be translucent while the remaining material will be mottled and opaque. | Western Texas | ||
Aleman Ribbon Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to white or red. Chalcedony occurs as veins, bird eye like vugs, and fossil replacement. | Western Texas | Aleman Member of the Montoya Formation |
Alibates Agatized Dolomite AKA: Alibates Flint |
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Primarily banded, speckles, or mottled with colors commonly ranging from red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white. | Northern Texas | Quartermaster Formation | |
Allamoore Ribbon Chert |
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Western Texas | Allamoore Formation | |
Andesite Generic Type |
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North America | Varies | ||
Apple Ranch Chert |
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Brown | Western Texas | Apple Ranch Limestone Member of the Word Formation |
Argillite (Generic type) |
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Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray | North America | ||
Balmorhea Blue Agate AKA: Toyah Agate |
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Ranges from a light blue gray to a dark blue gray, lavender, and white with bands of slight gray to lighter blues. | Western Texas | ||
Bangor Agate AKA: St. Louis |
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Basalt (Generic Type) |
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Ranges from black to gray | Western North America | ||
Big Bend Moss Agate AKA: Big Bend Plume Agate |
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Matrix that ranges from white to a clear blue or carnelian with brown green, red, or orange plumes or dendritic inclusions. | Southwestern Texas | ||
Big Bend Petrified Wood |
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Shades of brown with wood grain and rings present. | Southwestern Texas | ||
Big Bend Yellow Jasper |
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Commonly a mottled yellow with reds occurring. | Southwestern Texas | ||
Brazos River Chert AKA: Brazo River Pebble Chert, Mineral Wells Chert |
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Most commonly light colored but green, black, yellow, and red, banding may occur. | East central Texas | Mineral Wells Formation |
Brushy Creek Chert Edwards Chert variation |
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Slightly translucent and ranges in color from black to a dark medium gray. | East central Texas | Edwards Plateau Limestone Formation |
Bug-eyed Agate |
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Colors of clear, white, green, blue, and pink. Eyes. tubes, dendrites and fortifications are present. | Southwestern Texas | ||
Burro Mesa Chert |
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Colors from whites to grays, grays to blue, pinks and reds, and tan to yellow. It can be solid, mottles, or banded. | Southwestern Texas | |
Butterscotch Chert |
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Ranges from a light brown to a dark yellowish brown. | Southwestern Texas | |
Caballos Novaculite AKA: Santiago Chert |
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Primarily white. However, the upper and middle layers range from a banded multi color white, light green, light red, and light browns. | Western Texas | Caballos Novaculite Formation | |
Camp Colorado Chert |
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Ranges from a dark grayish black to black. | Eastern Texas | Camp Colorado Limestone Member of the Pueblo Formation |
Canadian River Plume Agate |
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Plumes of red, black, and yellow. | Northern Texas | ||
Cannel Coal |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black | Texas | ||
Canutillo Chert AKA: Texas Oil Chert |
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Ranges from a mottled light brown to dark
brown or black. |
Western Texas | Canutillo Limestone Formation |
Carnelian (Generic Type) |
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Translucent and varies in shades from reddish brown to reddish orange. | North America | Varies | |
Catahoula Petrified Wood |
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Includes petrified elm, oak, hickory, and palm wood and contains shades of white, brown, cream, and tan with wood grain or rings present. | Southeastern Texas | Catahoula Formation | |
Cienega Brown Chert |
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Ranges from a cream or tan to a yellowish or orangish brown. | Southwestern Texas | ||
Chickachoc Chert |
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Ranges in color from a rich tan to a grayish brown or black. | Northern Texas | Chickachoc Chert Member of the Wapanucka Formation |
Cowhouse Chert |
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Most common color is white ranging to gray or brown. Speckles, mottled, streaking, and fossiliferous hash, novaculite and petrified wood. | East central Texas | Cowhouse gravels | |
Cow Plop Chert AKA: Scarborough Ranch Chert |
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Gray to brown | East central Texas | |
Dacite Generic Type |
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Most commonly a light to dark gray or black | Western North America | Varies | |
Dakota Quartzite AKA: Dakota Orthoquartzite |
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Ranges in color from reds to browns | Northwestern Texas | Dakota Formation | |
Day Creek Chert |
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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 | Northwestern Texas | Day Creek dolomite of the Cloud Chief formation |
Devil's River Chert
AKA: Santa Elena Cahert |
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Ranges from a light gray to light brown and may be brecciated. | Southwestern Texas | Devils River Limestone Formation | |
Dimple Hills Chert |
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Black | Southwestern Texas | Dimple Hills Limestone Formation |
Edwards Plateau Chert |
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Ranges in color from most commonly light gray to brown or a medium gray. May have numerous short linear fossil inclusions. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |
El Sauz Chert |
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Predominantly light to medium gray may exhibiting mottling of pink, red, yellow, orange, purple, green and light browns. | Southern Texas | Catahoula Formation | |
Ellenburger Chert |
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Ranges from white to a light yellow or light gray. | Central Texas | Ellenburger Limestone Formation |
El Paso Chert |
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Ranges from a medium light gray to olive gray dolomite to a light tan to gray or olive gray with reddish or bluish streaks occasionally present. | Western Texas | El Paso Limestone Formation |
Etholen Chert |
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Ranges from gray to a light pinkish gray, black, or dark purple with darker colors being the most common. | Western Texas | Etholen Conglomerate Formation |
Evant Chert |
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Ranges from a whitish gray to a medium gray. Mottling with shades of brown may be present. | Central Texas | |
Felsite (Generic Type) |
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Generally white to light gray or reddish or tan with darker speckles being present. | Texas | ||
Fire Engine Jasper |
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Red | Eastern Texas | Brazos River Gravels | |
Florence Chert - Type A AKA: Kay County Chert, Maple City Chert |
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Banded or "wood grained" and ranges in color from a buff to a yellow gray. Heat treatment produces a red color. | Northeastern Texas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group |
Florence Chert - Type B |
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Ranges in color from a steel gray to a bluish gray with lighter colored splotches or darker colored mottling. | Northeastern Texas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group |
Florence Chert - Type C |
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Homogenous gray | Northeastern Texas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group |
Florence Chert - Type D AKA: Flint Hills Chert |
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Ranges from gray to a buff with many thin bands of darker translucent material. | Northeastern Texas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian |
Fort Hood Chert Edwards Chert variation |
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Ranges from a brownish yellow to light to dark gray, banding or speckles may be present. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation |
Fort Pena Chert |
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Ranges from shades of purple, red, and blue | Western Texas | Fort Pena Formation |
Fusselman Dolomite / Chert |
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Ranges from a light gray to an olive gray or brownish gray. | Western Texas | Fusselman Dolomite Formation |
Georgetown Chert AKA: Texas Tortilla Chert |
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Varying shades of gray. | Central Texas | Georgetown Member of the Edwards A Formation | |
Guadalupe River Gravel Chert |
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Varies in color based on the formation that the chert was originally formed, highest concentration is Edwards Chert. | Southeastern Texas | Guadalupe River Gravels |
Hamilton County Chert |
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Ranges from a light brown to a light brownish gray or light yellowish gray, mottling may be present. | Central Texas | |
Heiner Lake Chert Edwards Chert variation |
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Ranges from a tan to a light blue or blue. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation |
Lenora Park Chert |
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Light gray | Central Texas | |
Leon River Chert |
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Wide range of colors including shades of brown, gray, and white. | Northeastern Texas | Leon River Gravels (various formations) |
Leonard Chert |
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Yellowish | Western Texas | Leonard Formation |
Llano River Chert |
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Wide range of colors including shades of brown, gray, and white. | Central Texas | Llano River Gravels |
Manning Fused Glass |
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Colors of grayish white, black, red, and purple. | Eastern Texas | Manning Formation | |
Maravillas Chert AKA: Maravillas Gap Chert, Canyon Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black, fine white chalcedony veins or fine pale green banding may be present. | Southwestern Texas | Maravillas Formation |
Marble Falls Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black | Central Texas | Marble Falls Limestone Formation |
Marfa Plume Agate |
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Transparent to translucent matrix with dense black, metallic yellow, and less frequently, white plumes. | Western Texas | ||
McKnight Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Southwestern Texas | McKnight Formation of the Atascosa Group |
Montoya Chert |
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Shades of pink | Western Texas | Montoya Formation |
Needle Peak Agate |
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Mottled whitish tan to a light brown or dark yellowish brown, fortified agate, moss agate and pom pom agate also occurs. | Western Texas | ||
Novaculite AKA: Arkansas Novaculite, Ouachita Novaculite (Generic Type) |
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Range from white to light gray or black | Texas | Varies | |
Nueces River Chert |
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Colors ranges from white to shades of brown or gray. | Southeastern Texas | Varies |
Obsidian AKA: Volcanic Glass (Generic type) |
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Black to black with bands of dark reds (mahogany obsidian) or white flakes (snowflake obsidian) | Western North America | Volcanic | |
Ogallala
Orthoquartzite AKA: Bijou Hills Silicified Sediment and Sugar Rock |
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Colors can vary, but most common colors are light to dark gray, tan, white, pink, maroon, or golden | Northern Texas | Ogallala Formation |
Ogallala Silicified
Sediment AKA: Ogallala Chert |
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Ranges from a buff to a reddish color or gray. Quartz inclusions form speckles in the material. | Northern Texas | Ogallala Formation |
Owl Creek Black Chert Edwards Chert variation |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black, small white speckles may be present. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation |
Palmwood AKA: Petrified Palmwood |
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Ranges from white to yellowish white or cream with specks or streaks of
brown to yellowish brown. |
Eastern Texas | Catahoula Formation | |
Pedernales River Amoeba Chert AKA: Amoeba Chert, Abiquiq Chert |
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Ranges in color from light tan to dark brown. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |
Petrified Wood AKA: Agatized Wood, Opalized Wood |
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Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process | North America | Varies | |
Pisgah Ridge Chert AKA: Tehuacana Chert |
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Black with small white speckles weathering white | Northeastern Texas | Tehuacana Limestone Member of the Kincaid Formation |
Pom Pom Agate |
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Soft green to colorless matrix with clear yellow "pom pom" inclusions. | Western Texas | ||
Potter Chert |
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Mottled with shades of white, gray, blue, and yellow. | Northern Texas | Potter Member of the Ogallala Formation |
Rancheria Chert |
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Porous ranging from gray to brown and weathering brown | Western Texas | Rancheria Formation |
Ranger Chert |
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Brown | North central Texas | Ranger Limestone Member of the Brad Formation |
Red River Jasper AKA: Kiamichi Chert |
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ranges from an orangish red to a greenish gray with iron pyrite inclusions commonly present. | Northeastern Texas | Possible Woodford Formation | |
Rhyolite (Generic Type) |
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Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | North America | Volcanic Activity | |
Rio Grande River Chert |
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Wide variety of colors with the most common being shades of cream, tan, and brown. Petrified wood and quartzite also occur | Western Texas | Rio Grande river gravels. |
Rio Grande Valley Wood |
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Shades of white, gray, brown, red, and black with wood rings and grain present. | Southwestern Texas | Goliad Formation | |
Root Beer Chert Edwards Chert variation |
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Ranges from a medium to dark brown or grayish brown and may range from homogenous to having swirls or streaking | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation |
Salmon Peak Chert |
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Southwestern Texas | Salmon Peak Formation | |
Santiago Chert (Caballos Novaculite) |
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Banded with primarily green, but dull shades of red, gray, brown, yellow, and white are also present. | Western Texas | Santiago Chert Member of the Caballos Novaculite | |
Stockweather Chert |
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Ranges from yellowish to a pale whitish yellow | Central Texas | Stockweather Limestone Member of the Pueblo Formation |
Taylor Ranch Chert |
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Orangish brown color | Southwestern Texas | Taylor Ranch Limestone Member of the Hess Formation |
Tecovas Jasper AKA: Quitague Jasper |
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Ranges from variegated or mottled red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white | Northern Texas | Tecovas Formation |
Tessman Ranch Wood |
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Colors of yellow, tan, browns, and white with rings or grains commonly present. | Southern Texas | ||
Thistle Agate |
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Matrix of translucent gray or green with fine white or yellow starburst or pom poms. | Southern Texas | ||
Thunderbird Rhyolite |
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Ranges from a dark purplish gray or black with brownish red inclusions to a reddish brown with dark purplish gray or black inclusions. | Western Texas | Thunderbird Formation | |
Tuff AKA: Solidified Volcanic Ash |
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Contains greater than 75 volcanic ash and ranges from white to tan, gray or pink. | North America | Volcanic activity | |
Uvalde Chert AKA: Twelvemile Creek Chert |
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Ranges from most commonly from tan to brown with white, blue, gray, and pink cherts also occurring. | Southeastern Texas | Uvalde Gravels | |
Van Horn Purple & Tan Chert |
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Ranges from a mottled pale to medium purple or a mottled light to medium tan, purplish tan or grayish orange. | Western Texas | |
Van Horn Spotted Chert |
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Ranges from a brownish red to a grayish red, pale orange, or grayish purple with spots or patches of white, or reversed colors. | Western Texas | |
Van Horn White Chert |
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Ranges from a mottled white to medium light gray or pinkish gray. | Western Texas | |
Vidrio Chert |
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Uniform dark to light gray | Western Texas | Vidrio Massive Member of the Captain Limestone Formation |
Willis Chert |
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Great variation of color, most commonly shades of brown and tan, but may range to white to pink or black. Petrified Wood also occurs. | Southeastern Texas | Willis Gravel Formation |
Woodward Ranch Agate AKA: Alpine Agate |
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Includes both plume, flower, and banded agates with plumes of red and black and pink banded agate. | Southwestern Texas | ||
Wylie Mountain Agate AKA: Van Horn Butterscotch Agate |
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Ranges from a mottled whitish tan to a light brown or dark yellowish brown or a mottled whitish pink to a dusty red. | Western Texas |