Virginia Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Aaron Slate AKA: Sandy Tuff |
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Ranges from a pure greenstone to a almost pure argillite | Southeastern Virginia | Aaron Formation of the Virginia Carolina Slate Belt | |
Abbyville Gabbro |
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Dark greenish gray | Southeastern Virginia | Abbyville Gabbro Formation | |
Accomack Mudstone |
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Ranges in color from a light or medium brown to a yellowish mustard brown. | Eastern Virginia | Yorktown and Omar formation estuarine deposits | |
Allentown Chert |
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Ranges from a medium to dark gray with white streamers with banding commonly present. Oolitic and stromatolitic. | Northern Virginia | Allentown Formation |
Allentown Quartzite |
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Ranges from a very light gray to a medium light gray. | Northern Virginia | Allentown Formation | |
Amber Chalcedony AKA: Weathering Amber Chalcedony |
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When freshly fractured is a translucent amber with snowflake like inclusions, when weathered has a chalky white to yellow appearance | Southeastern Virginia | ||
Antietam Quartzite |
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Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red, a greenish brown variation is reported | Northern Virginia | Antietam Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |
Argillite (Generic type) |
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Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | North America | Varies | |
Arnolds Valley Jasper AKA: Rockbridge Jasper |
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Ranges in color from yellow to red with white streaks of quart. | North central Virginia | Chilhower Group | |
Arvonia Slate |
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Ranges from a dark gray to a grayish black. | Northern Virginia | Arvonia Formation | |
Beasley Bay Jasper |
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Ranges from a mustard yellow to a brownish yellow or red. | Eastern Virginia | Kent Island Formation | |
Becraft Chert |
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Light bluish gray to medium gray or black | New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia | Becraft Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Beekmantown Chert AKA: Narrows Chert |
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Dark gray often fossiliferous. | Northern Virginia | Beekmantown Formation |
Bellefonte Chert |
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Ranges from a light to medium gray | Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia | Bellefonte Dolomite Formation of the Beekmantown Group. |
Berea Sandstone |
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Ranges in color from a light gray to a buff | Northwestern Virginia | Waverly Group | |
Bonifant Jasper AKA: Bonnefont Jasper |
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Mottled mustard yellow to a yellowish brown or a variegated red | East central Virginia | porphyoblastic garnet-biotite gneiss formation | |
Bourne Chert AKA: Brunswick County Chert |
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Predominantly brown to cream, red, or violet, but ranges from pink, yellow, brown, orange, and light blue also occur. | East central Virginia | |
Bremo Quartzite |
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Light gray | East central Virginia | Bremo Quartzite Member of the Arvonia Formation | |
Broad Run Chalcedony AKA: Wissahickon Chalcedony |
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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. | Northeastern Virginia | Wissahickon Formation | |
Brook Run Jasper |
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Ranges from a mustard yellow to a yellowish brown or red with white quartz streaks running through the material. | Northern Virginia | ||
Buffards Quartzite |
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Ranges from a milky white quartz to a dusty red quartzite. | Central Virginia | Buffards Quartzite Member of the Arvonia Formation | |
Calvert Silicified Sandstone |
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Ranges from a light gray to a bluish gray or dark gray | Eastern Virginia | Calvert Formation, Chesapeake Group | |
Catoctin Greenstone AKA: Catoctin Metabasalt |
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Ranges from a green to a greenish gray or gray. | Northern Virginia | Catoctin Formation | |
Catoctin Metarhyolite AKA: Highland Metarhyolite |
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Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, blue, or purple. Banding, mottling, or breccia with a tannish color may be present. | Northern Virginia | Catoctin Formation | |
Chepultepec Chert
Knox Chert Variant (Ridge and Valley Chert) |
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Ranges from yellow to white and oolitic | Western Virginia | Chapultepec Member of the Knox Formation |
Chilhowee Mudstone |
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greenish-gray in color | Western Virginia | Chilhowee Group | |
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. | Northern Virginia | Coeymans Limestone Formation (New Creek Formation), Helderberg Group |
Conococheague Chert |
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Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, brownish gray, or black. Small blue to white inclusions may be present. | Western Virginia | Conococheague Limestone Formation |
Copper Ridge Chert (Ridge and Valley Chert) |
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Ranges in color from medium to dark gray to black | Western Virginia | Copper Ridge Member of the Knox formation |
Crystal Quartz |
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clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Eastern North America | ||
Culpepper Hornfels |
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Range from a brown to reddish brown or greenish brown and gray to black. | Northern Virginia | ||
Erwin Quartzite AKA: Erwin - Antietam Quartzite, Hesse Quartzite |
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Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red. A green brown variation is reported in Amherst County, Virginia | Southern Virginia | Erwin Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |
Flint Run Jasper |
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Mottled mustard yellow to brown, but gray, red, blue, and green also occur as streaking or inclusions and quartz inclusions. | Northern Virginia | Between the Beekmantown Formation and the Blue Ridge Formation | |
Fort Chiswell Chalcedony |
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Mottled with light colors of white tan, and gray. | Western Virginia | ||
Fort Payne Chert AKA: Iuka Chert, Lauderdale Chert |
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Ranges in color from black to a grayish blue, or white to a bluish white. Bluish gray is the predominate color with bluish hues | Western Virginia | Fort Payne Formation | |
Greenbrier Chert AKA: Alderson Chert |
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Ranges in color from light to dark grays, browns, black, and pale red. | Northwestern Virginia | Greenbrier Formation |
Hardy Creek Chert |
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Ranges from a brown to a gray or an olive black | Western Virginia | Hardy Creek Limestone Formation |
Harpers Ferry Quartzite AKA: Oolitic Quartzite |
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Ranges from a light gray to light blue with round speckles colored dark gray to a bluish gray or cream to light gray | Eastern Virginia | Possible Harpers Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |
Helderberg Chert |
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Ranges from mottled white to light cream, light gray, and light blue commonly mottled and fossiliferous. | Northern Virginia | Helderberg Group |
Hillsdale Chert |
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Black weathering gray. | Northwestern Virginia | Hillsdale Limestone Formation |
Honaker Chert / Dolomite AKA: Nolichucky Chert |
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Dolomite is a light to medium gray with banding present, minor chert nodules of dark gray to black with algal banding | Western Virginia | Honaker Formation / Nolichucky Formation |
Hunterville Chert |
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Ranges from a yellowish gray to a gray or dark gray. | North central Virginia | Hunterville Chert Formation of the Oriskany Group |
Indian Run Chert |
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Mottled with shaded of medium to dark gray and white. | North central Virginia | |
Kanawha Black Chert |
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Vary from a black to a bluish black /gray to a dark gray | Northwestern Virginia | Kanawha Formation, Pottsville Group |
Kingsport Chert |
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Ranges from white to a medium to dark gray. | Western Virginia | Kingsport Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Knox Chert |
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Dark blue to bluish gray with translucent mottling. Red Knox Chert has a reddish color with slight mottling. | Western Virginia | Knox Formation | |
Laurel Run Chert |
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Ranges from a light to dark gray or black with tan, pink, and white also occurring. | Western Virginia |
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Lenoir Chert |
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Dark Gray | Western Virginia | Lenoir Limestone Formation |
Libertytown Metarhyolite |
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Ranges from a dark purplish to a bluish black or red with macrophenocycts of pink and white feldspar. | Northern Virginia | Libertytown Metarhyolite Formation |
Licking Creek Chert |
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Black with sandy texture inclusions. | Northern Virginia | Licking Creek Member of the Helderberg Formation |
Lincolnshire Chert AKA: Murat Chert |
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Ranges from a very dark gray to olive black. | Western Virginia | Lincolnshire Limestone Formation of the Cliffeld Group |
Little Cattail Creek
Chert / Chalcedony AKA: Williamson Chert, Dinwiddie Chert |
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The most common colors range from a light tan to brown and gray to blue with a mottled creamy gray-blue being the most common. | Southeastern Virginia | ||
Liver Jasper |
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Red liver colored jasper with hematite spherules | Northern Virginia | ||
Longview Chert Knox variation |
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Primarily reddish, but white to gray colors do occur | Western Virginia | Longview Member of the Knox formation |
Luray Jasper |
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Maroon red with epidote inclusions | Northern Virginia | ||
Macot Dolomite / Chert |
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Ranges from white to a light to medium gray with with mottling or streaking ranging from pink to red or green | Western Virginia | Mascot Dolomite Formation of the Newala Group |
Mitchell Chert |
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Ranges from white to dark brown with the most common colors being from a light cream to yellow, light gray to blue, and pink to violet. | Southeastern Virginia | |
Mogothy Quartzite AKA: Magothy Quartzite |
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Ranges in color from gray to bluish gray or purple, banding or mottling may be present. Small fossils may give a peppered appearance. | Northeastern Virginia | Mogothy Formation | |
Morrow Mountain Rhyolite AKA: Uwharrie Rhyolite |
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Homogeneous dark gray to black and many shades of green, flow banding may be present. | South central Virginia | ||
Mount Rodgers Rhyolite |
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Ranges in color from a dark white to gray and light pink to purple with banding being present | Southwestern Virginia | Mount Rodgers Formation | |
Newman Chert |
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Ranges in color from yellow to tan, red, and orange | Western Virginia | Newman Limestone formation |
New Market Chert AKA: Row Park Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland | New Market Limestone Formation of the St. Paul Group |
New Scotland Chert AKA: Corriganville Chert |
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Ranges from a white to very light colors. | Northern Virginia | New Scotland Formation (Corriganville Formation) of the Helderberg Group |
Nittany Chert |
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Ranges from a medium to dark gray with siliceous oolites. Red jasper also occurs in this formation. | Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia | Nittany Dolomite Formation, Beekmantown Group |
Nottoway River Quartzite |
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Two variations, one is a light blue and the other is a root beer brown. |
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Oriskany Solicified Sandstone |
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White | Northern Virginia | Oriskany Sandstone Formation | |
Orthoquartzite (Generic type) |
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Varies | North America | Varies | |
Patuxent - Mattaponi Quartzite AKA: Mattaponi Quartzite |
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Ranges from gray to a white, light yellow, pink or red. range sin color from a dark white to gray, cream to yellow, and pink to red. | Northwestern Virginia | Patuxent / Mattaponi Formation | |
Patton Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. |
Western Virginia | Patton Limestone Member of the Greenbrier Limestone Formation |
Pinesburg Station Chert |
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Ranges from a white to very light gray. | Northern Virginia | Pinesburg Station Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Point of Rocks Jasper |
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Ranges from a mustard yellow to a yellowish brown with grays also occurring. | Northeastern Virginia | ||
Poteet Chert |
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Ranges from a dark olive gray to olive black. | Western Virginia | Poteet Limestone Formation |
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 | Eastern North America | ||
Rich Patch Chert |
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Primarily a light to dark gray, but white to pink, cream, brown and grayish browns occur. | Northwestern Virginia | |
Ridgely Quartzite |
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Ranges from white to a light tan or a medium gray or pink. | Northern Virginia | Ridgely Sandstone Member of the Oriskany Formation | |
Rockdale Run Chert |
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Ranges from a light to medium gray. |
Northern Virginia | Rockdale Run Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Rose Hill Quartzite AKA: Ferruginous Quartzite, Hematitic Sandstone |
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Ranges in color from a brownish purple to a medium purple or a blood red. | Northwestern Virginia | Rose Hill Formation | |
Runion Agate |
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Black to brown plume agate | Northern Virginia | ||
Shear Zone Chalcedony (Mylonite) |
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Ranges from a translucent white to yellow, pink, or orange and commonly has inclusions or patches of green or gray. | Northwestern Virginia | ||
Shady Chert |
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Ranges from a bluish gray to a yellowish gray blue, or white with mottling commonly present. | Western Virginia | Shady Dolomite Formation |
Shiver Chert |
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Ranges in color from a medium gray to black | Northern Virginia | Shiver Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Sideling Hill Chert |
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Ranges from a grayish blue to a medium to dark gray or white. Streaking or banding may be present. | Northwestern Virginia | Probably New Creek Limestone Formation (Coeymans Formation). |
Sinks Grove Chert Greenbreir Chert variation |
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Black weathering gray. | Western Virginia | Sinks Grove Limestone Member of the Greenbrier Limestone Formation |
Skidmore Island Chert |
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Homogenous and ranges from a white to a cream or light tan | Eastern Virginia | Unknown formation |
Stonehenge Chert AKA: Stonehenge - Chepultepec Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Northern Virginia | Stonehenge Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Tomstown Chert |
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Ranges from beds of bluish gray to a yellowish gray blue, or white with mottling commonly present and nodules of white. | Northern Virginia | Tomstown Dolomite Formation |
Trading Run Chert |
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Light color ranging from a mottled white to gray, cream to yellow, and pinks with iron staining commonly present. | Northern Virginia | Helderberg Formation |
Tuscarora Quartzite AKA: Massanutten Quartzite |
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White and gray | Northern Virginia | Tuscarora Quartzite Formation of the Judy Gap Group | |
Unakite |
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Mottled green and pink | Virginia | ||
Virginia Beach Jasper |
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Ranges from a brownish yellow to a light yellowish tan, gray, or red. | Southeastern Virginia | Tabb Formation | |
Waynesboro Chert AKA: Rome Chert |
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Ranges from a very dark gray to black | Northwestern Virginia | Waynesboro Limestone Formation (Rome Limestone Formation) |
Weverton Quartzite |
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Feldspathic and ranges from a grayish white to medium light gray. | Northwestern Virginia | Buzzard Knob Member of the Weverton Quartzite Formation, Chilhowee Group | |
Woodway Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to olive black. | Western Virginia | Woodway Limestone Formation |