West Virginia Licthic Materials

Materials Identification Guide

West Virginia Lithic Material

Name	Natural	Non-heat treated points	Heat treated points	Color details	Primary found in:	Associated Formation / Member
Allentown Chert				Ranges from a medium to dark gray with white streamers with banding commonly present. Oolitic and stromatolitic.	Northwestern West Virginia	Allentown Formation
Allentown Quartzite				Ranges from a very light gray to a medium light gray.	Northwestern West Virginia	Allentown Formation
Antietam Quartzite AKA: Erwin-Antietam Quartzite				Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red, a greenish brown variation is reported	Eastern West Virginia	Antietam Formation of the Chilhowee Group
Argillite (Generic type)				Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray.	North America	Varies
Arnolds Valley Jasper AKA: Rockbridge Jasper				Ranges in color from yellow to red with white streaks of quart.	Eastern West Virginia	Chilhower Group
Beekmantown Chert AKA: Narrows Chert				Dark gray often fossiliferous.	Eastern West Virginia	Beekmantown Formation
Bellefonte Chert				Ranges from a light to medium gray	Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia	Bellefonte Dolomite Formation of the Beekmantown Group.
Berea Sandstone				Ranges in color from a light gray to a buff	West Virginia	Waverly Group
Boggs Chert AKA: Blunt Run Chert				Ranges in color from a dark gray to black with numerous white or light colored speckles from fossils	Northwestern West Virginia	Boggs Member of the Pottsville Formation
Breathitt Chert				Range from a dark chocolate brown to a black or from shades of brownish green to tan with tan or yellow inclusions are often present.	Western West Virginia	Breathitt Formation
Breccia Quartzite					West Virginia
Brush Creek Chert AKA: Crooksville Chert, Hughes River Chert				Varies in color from a tan to a brown olive or light green	Northwestern West Virginia	Brush Creek Limestone Formation, Conemaugh Group
Cambridge Chert				Gray colored chert	Northern West Virginia	Cambridge Member of the Conemaugh Formation
Cannel Coal				Ranges from dark gray to black	Kentucky, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Texas, and Nova Scotia.
Catoctin Greenstone AKA: Catoctin Metabasalt				Ranges from a green to a greenish gray or gray.	Northeastern West Virginia	Catoctin Formation
Catoctin Metarhyolite AKA: Highland Metarhyolite				Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, blue, or purple. Banding, mottling, or breccia with a tannish color may be present.	Northeastern West Virginia	Catoctin Formation
Chepultepec Chert				Ranges from yellow to white and oolitic	Eastern West Virginia	Chapultepec Member of the Knox Formation
Chilhowee Mudstone				greenish-gray in color	Southern West Virginia	Chilhowee Group
Conococheague Chert				Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, brownish gray, or black. Small blue to white inclusions may be present.	Southern West Virginia	Conococheague Limestone Formation
Copper Ridge Chert				Ranges in color from medium to dark gray to black	Eastern West Virginia	Copper Ridge Member of the Knox formation
Crystal Quartz				clear colorless stone similar to clear glass	Eastern North America
Fishpot Chert				Primarily light to dark brown and gray in color. High quality similar to chalcedony. Light banding with small bluish gray chalcedony inclusions.	Northern West Virginia	Fishpot Limestone Member of the Monongahela Formation
Flint Ridge Chert /Chalcedony AKA: Van Port Chert, Raccoon Creek Chert				White to bluish hues with bands of light gray, reds, and yellows	West Virginia	Van Port Member of the Allegheny Formation
Flint Run Jasper				Mottled mustard yellow to brown, but gray, red, blue, and green also occur as streaking or inclusions and quartz inclusions.	Northeastern West Virginia	Between the Beekmantown Formation and the Blue Ridge Formation
Fort Payne Chert AKA: Iuka Chert, Lauderdale Chert				Ranges in color from black to a grayish blue, or white to a bluish white. Bluish gray is the predominate color with bluish hues	Southern West Virginia	Fort Payne Formation
Greenbrier Chert AKA: Alderson Chert				Ranges in color from light to dark grays, browns, black, and pale red.	Southeastern West Virginia	Greenbrier Formation
Greenfield Chert				Ranges from a light to dark gray with white chalcedony / quartz inclusions..	Western West Virginia	Greenfield formation, Saline Group
Hardy Creek Chert				Ranges from a brown to a gray or an olive black	Southern West Virginia	Hardy Creek Limestone Formation
Helderberg Chert				Ranges from mottled white to light cream, light gray, and light blue commonly mottled and fossiliferous.	Northeastern West Virginia	Helderberg Group
Hillsdale Chert				Black weathering gray.	Southern West Virginia	Hillsdale Limestone Formation
Hunterville Chert				Ranges from a yellowish gray to a gray or dark gray.	Southeastern West Virginia	Hunterville Chert Formation of the Oriskany Group
Kanawha Black Chert				Vary from a black to a bluish black /gray to a dark gray	West Virginia	Kanawha Formation, Pottsville Group
Knox Chert				Dark blue to bluish gray with translucent mottling. Red Knox Chert has a reddish color with slight mottling.	Eastern West Virginia	Knox Formation
Lenoir Chert				Dark Gray	Southwestern West Virginia	Lenoir Limestone Formation
Libertytown Metarhyolite				Ranges from a dark purplish to a bluish black or red with macrophenocycts of pink and white feldspar.	Northeastern West Virginia	Libertytown Metarhyolite Formation
Longview Chert				Primarily reddish, but white to gray colors do occur	Eastern West Virginia	Longview Member of the Knox formation
Lower Mercer Chert				Bluish gray color with quartz inclusions.	Northwestern West Virginia	Lower Mercer Member of the Pottsville Formation
Meadow Mountain Chert				Mottled blue gray with white streaks present.	Northern West Virginia	Possible Foreknob Formation
Nethers Chert Flint Ridge Chert variation AKA: Ribbon Chert				Banded with colors ranging from light gray to black, pink to red, or tan to brown	West Virginia	Van Port Member of the Allegheny Formation
New Market Chert AKA: Row Park Chert				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				Ranges from a white to very light colors.	Northeastern West Virginia	New Scotland Formation (Corriganville Formation) of the Helderberg Group
Nittany Chert				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
Obryan Chert AKA: Southern Vanport Chert				Ranges in color from a mottled gray to white with calcium carbonate vermiculate lines	Western West Virginia	Obryan Member of the Allegheny Formation
Onodaga Chert AKA: See page				Vary from light to dark gray to a mottled bluish gray to a dark brown or black or tan.	Northern West Virginia	Onondaga Limestone Formation
Oriskany Solicified Sandstone				White	Northeastern West Virginia	Oriskany Sandstone Formation
Orthoquartzite (Generic type)				Varies	North America	Varies
Patuxent - Mattaponi Quartzite AKA: Mattaponi Quartzite				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.	West Virginia	Patuxent / Mattaponi Formation
Patton Chert				Ranges from a dark gray to black.	Southern West Virginia	Patton Limestone Member of the Greenbrier Limestone Formation
Pinesburg Station Chert				Ranges from a white to very light gray.	Northeastern West Virginia	Pinesburg Station Formation of the Beekmantown Group
Quartz				Milky white with thin veins	North America
Quartzite				Varies from white to gray, or pink and tan in color	North America
Rhyolite				Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray	Eastern North America
Ridgely Quartzite				Ranges from white to a light tan or a medium gray or pink.	Northeastern West Virginia	Ridgely Sandstone Member of the Oriskany Formation
Rockdale Run Chert				Ranges from a light to medium gray.	Northeastern West Virginia	Rockdale Run Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group
Rose Hill Quartzite AKA: Ferruginous Quartzite, Hematitic Sandstone				Ranges in color from a brownish purple to a medium purple or a blood red.	Eastern West Virginia	Rose Hill Formation
Stonehenge Chert AKA: Stonehenge - Chepultepec Chert				Ranges from a dark gray to black.	Northeastern West Virginia	Stonehenge Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group
Ten Mile Creek Chert				Ranges in color from a dark brownish gray to an olive gray or bluish gray.	Northern West Virginia	Greene Formation
Tomstown Chert				Ranges from beds of bluish gray to a yellowish gray blue, or white with mottling commonly present and nodules of white.	Northeastern West Virginia	Tomstown Dolomite Formation
Trading Run Chert				Light color ranging from a mottled white to gray, cream to yellow, and pinks with iron staining commonly present.	Northeastern West Virginia	Helderberg Formation
Tuscarora Quartzite AKA: Massanutten Quartzite				White and gray	Northeastern West Virginia	Tuscarora Quartzite Formation of the Judy Gap Group
Uniontown Chert AKA: Waynesburg Chert				Ranges from light to medium gray or yellowish brown with yellow streaks.	Northern West Virginia	Uniontown Formation of the Monongahela Group.
Waynesboro Chert AKA: Rome Chert				Ranges from a very dark gray to black	Eastern West Virginia	Waynesboro Limestone Formation (Rome Limestone Formation)
Weverton Quartzite				Feldspathic and ranges from a grayish white to medium light gray.	Eastern West Virginia	Buzzard Knob Member of the Weverton Quartzite Formation, Chilhowee Group