Kansas Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Aarde Shale |
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Dull yellowish gray | Eastern Kansas | Aarden Shale Member of the Howard Limestone Formation | |
Alibates Chert |
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Mottled color from most commonly reds, yellows, and oranges in iron rich areas to blues and dark greens | Southwestern Kansas | Quartermaster Formation | |
Arbuckle Chert |
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Oolitic and ranges from a tan to a light gray color. | Southeastern Kansas | Arbuckle Formation, Osage Group |
Argentine Chert |
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Ranges in color from a light tan to a pale to medium gray. Light mottling or streaking may be present. | Northeastern Kansas | Argentine Member of the Wyandotte Limestone Formation |
Baldy Hill Jasper AKA: Cimarron River Jasper |
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Mottled color from most commonly varying shades of reds and yellows. | Southwestern Kansas | Baldy Hill Formation | |
Blue River Agate |
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Northeastern Kansas | Eskridge Formation | ||
Blue Springs Chert |
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Blue Valley Agate |
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White to light blue or pinkish matrix with pink bands or patches | Northeastern Kansas | Wreford Formation | |
Boone Chert AKA: Sallisaw Chert, Grand Falls Chert, Ti Valley Chert |
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Ranges from a light gray to white | Southeastern Kansas | Boone Limestone Formation |
Cherokee Chert |
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Cheyenne Quartzite |
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Southern Kansas | Cheyenne Sandstone Formation | ||
Cottonwood Chert AKA: Manhattan Chert |
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Grayish brown with patches of shades of white. | Northeastern Kansas | Cottonwood Limestone Formation |
Dakota Quartzite AKA: Dakota Orthoquartzite |
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Ranges in color from reds to browns | Western Kansas | 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 | Southwestern Kansas | Day Creek Dolomite Member of the Cloud Chief Formation |
Ervine Creek Chert |
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Ranges from a light medium gray to a dark gray. Larger white specks are formed by fossils | Northeastern Kansas | Ervine Creek Limestone Member, Deer Creek Limestone Formation |
Flint Hill Chert AKA fro Florence Chert type D |
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Wide range of colors including shades of blue and gray, whites, and browns. | Central Kansas | Florence Limestone Member of the Barnestone Formation |
Flint Hills Quartzite |
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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. | Southern Kansas | 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. | Southern Kansas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group |
Florence Chert - Type C |
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Homogenous gray | Southern Kansas | 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. | Southern Kansas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian |
Foraker Chert AKA: Four Ace Chert |
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Light blue color with numerous snow white speckles of fossils. | Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas | Foraker Limestone Formation |
Fort Scott Chert AKA: Bixby Black Chert |
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Ranges from a dark bluish black to black. | Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri | Fort Scott Limestone Formation, Henrietta (Marmaton) Group |
Gilmore City Chert |
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Opaque brownish gray | Northeastern Kansas | Gilmore City Formation | |
Grand Falls Chert Boone Chert variation |
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Light gray color and may vary to brown | Southeastern Kansas | Grand Falls Member of the Boone Formation |
Hunton Chert |
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North central Kansas | Hunton Limestone Formation | |
Kansas Pipestone |
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Homogenous medium red color | Kansas | ||
Keokuk Chert |
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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 |
Luta Chert AKA: Marion Chert, Winfield Chert |
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Banded chert | East central Kansas | Luta Limestone Member of the Winfield Formation |
Nehawka Chert Rice Grain Chert, Protozoa Agate, Weeping Water Chert |
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Ranges from grayish blue to blue with oolitic white specks | Northeastern Kansas | Pennsylvanian Limestone Formation | |
Neva Chert |
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White | Central Kansas | Neva Limestone Member of the Grenola Formation |
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 | Western Kansas | Ogallala Formation |
Ogallala Palm Wood AKA: Petrified Palmwood |
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Ranges from white to a dark gray with specks. | Western Kansas | 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. | Western Kansas | Ogallala Formation |
Osage Chert Osage Undifferentiated Chert |
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Ranges from a white to light gray or light brown. Occasionally gray to dark gray mottling is present. | Eastern Kansas | Osage Series |
Peoria Chert AKA: Tahlequah Chert |
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Primarily white but ranges to a pale yellowish what to a yellowish brown or pink | Southeastern Kansas | Tahlequah Member of the Moorefield Formation |
Petrified Wood AKA: Agatized Wood, Opalized Wood |
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Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process | Kansas | Varies | |
Plattsburg Chert |
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Light brown color. | Northeastern Kansas | Plattsburg Limestone Formation |
Reed's Spring Chert AKA: Carr Branch Chert |
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Opaque chert ranging in color from a bluish gray to a light gray or yellowish brown. | Southeastern Kansas | Reed's Springs formation |
Republican River Jasper AKA for Smoky Hills Jasper |
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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 | North central Kansas | Smoky Hills Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation | |
Rhyolite |
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Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | Kansas | Volcanic Activity | |
Schroyer Chert AKA: Wreford Type B |
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Ranges from bluish gray to a gray and may be mottled or splotched with darker gray with speckles of small white fossils | Central Kansas | Schroyer Member, Wrenford Limestone Formation |
Smoky Hills Jasper AKA: Alma, Graham, Niobrara, Republican River Jasper |
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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 | North central Kansas | ||
South Bend Chert |
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Ranges from a light gray to a light bluish gray, concretions are commonly present. | Northeastern Kansas | South Bend Limestone Member of the Stanton Limestone Formation |
Spring Hill Chert |
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Strongly mottled and ranges from light to dark gray with dark speckles being present. | Northeastern Kansas | Spring Hill Member, Plattsburg Limestone Formation |
Stoner Chert Type A and B |
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Ranges from light to medium gray or a grayish tan with white veins. | Northeastern Kansas | Stoner Member of the Stanton Formation, Lansing Group |
Three Mile Chert Wreford Chert Variant AKA: Wreford Chert type A |
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Yellowish brown | Southeastern Kansas | Threemile Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation, Permian Group |
Toronto Chert |
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Homogenous ranging from a white to a pale brown or yellowish brown. | Northeastern Kansas | Toronto Limestone Member, Oread Formation of the Shawnee Group |
Tuff AKA: Solidified Volcanic Ash |
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Contains greater than 75 volcanic ash and ranges from white to tan, gray or pink. | Kansas | Volcanic activity | |
Westerville Chert |
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Ranges from homogeneous to mottled pale brown to a light yellowish brown or brownish yellow with thin bands may be present. | Northeastern Kansas | Westerville Limestone Member of the Cherryvale Shale Formation |
Winterset Chert AKA: Fusulinid Chert, Zebra Chert |
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Primarily homogenous, ranging to mottled or layered, ranging from a light to dark gray or brownish gray, opaque may have a "zebra" appearance | Northeastern Kansas | Winterset Limestone Member of the Dennis Limestone Formation, Kansas City Group |
Wreford Chert |
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Ranges from a buff to tan or grayish tan to a bluish gray to gray. Mottling or banding may be present. | Central Kansas | Wreford Limestone Formation |