Color:  Sheep Creek Quartzite is most commonly tan to cream color with light gray occurring and less often dark gray, white or red.  Banding is commonly present.

Texture:  Well cemented fine grain

Luster:

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Patina:

Heat Treatment: 

Knapping: Produces a conchoidal fracture
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution Comments:

Sheep Creek Quartzite is associated with the Uinta Quartzite Formation of Utah with primary outcroppings restricted to the tributaries of Sheep Creek Canyon on the north slope of the Uintas in Utah.