Kansas Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Aarde Shale | Dull yellowish gray | Eastern Kansas | Aarden Shale Member of the Howard Limestone Formation | |||
Alibates Chert | Mottled color from most commonly reds, yellows, and oranges in iron rich areas to blues and dark greens | Southwestern Kansas | Quartermaster Formation | |||
Arbuckle Chert | Oolitic and ranges from a tan to a light gray color. | Southeastern Kansas | Arbuckle Formation, Osage Group | |||
Argentine Chert | 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 |
Mottled color from most commonly varying shades of reds and yellows. | Southwestern Kansas | Baldy Hill Formation | |||
Blue River Agate | Northeastern Kansas | Eskridge Formation | ||||
Blue Springs Chert | Northeastern Kansas | |||||
Blue Valley Agate | 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 |
Ranges from a light gray to white | Southeastern Kansas | Boone Limestone Formation | |||
Cherokee Chert | Kansas | |||||
Cheyenne Quartzite | Southern Kansas | Cheyenne Sandstone Formation | ||||
Cottonwood Chert AKA: Manhattan Chert |
Grayish brown with patches of shades of white. | Northeastern Kansas | Cottonwood Limestone Formation | |||
Dakota Quartzite AKA: Dakota Orthoquartzite |
Ranges in color from reds to browns | Western Kansas | Dakota Formation | |||
Day Creek Chert | 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 | 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 |
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 | Central Kansas | |||||
Florence Chert - Type A AKA: Kay County Chert, Maple City Chert |
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 | 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 | Homogenous gray | Southern Kansas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group | |||
Florence Chert - Type D AKA: Flint Hills Chert |
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 |
Light blue color with numerous snow white speckles of fossils. | Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas | Foraker Limestone Formation | |||
Fort Scott Chert AKA: Bixby Black Chert |
Ranges from a dark bluish black to black. | Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri | Fort Scott Limestone Formation, Henrietta (Marmaton) Group | |||
Gilmore City Chert | Opaque brownish gray | Northeastern Kansas | Gilmore City Formation | |||
Grand Falls Chert Boone Chert variation |
Light gray color and may vary to brown | Southeastern Kansas | Grand Falls Member of the Boone Formation | |||
Hunton Chert | North central Kansas | Hunton Limestone Formation | ||||
Kansas Pipestone | Homogenous medium red color | Kansas | ||||
Keokuk Chert | 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 |
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Luta Chert AKA: Marion Chert, Winfield Chert |
Banded chert | East central Kansas | Luta Limestone Member of the Winfield Formation | |||
Nehawka Chert Rice Grain Chert, Protozoa Agate, Weeping Water Chert |
Ranges from grayish blue to blue with oolitic white specks | Northeastern Kansas | Pennsylvanian Limestone Formation | |||
Neva Chert | White | Central Kansas | Neva Limestone Member of the Grenola Formation | |||
Ogallala
Orthoquartzite AKA: Bijou Hills Silicified Sediment and Sugar Rock |
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 |
Ranges from white to a dark gray with specks. | Western Kansas | Ogallala Formation | |||
Ogallala Silicified
Sediment AKA: Ogallala Chert |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process | Kansas | Varies | |||
Plattsburg Chert | Light brown color. | Northeastern Kansas | Plattsburg Limestone Formation | |||
Reed's Spring Chert AKA: Carr Branch Chert |
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 |
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 | Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | Kansas | Volcanic Activity | |||
Schroyer Chert AKA: Wreford Type B |
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 |
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 | 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 | 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 |
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 |
Yellowish brown | Southeastern Kansas | Threemile Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation, Permian Group | |||
Toronto Chert | 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 |
Contains greater than 75 volcanic ash and ranges from white to tan, gray or pink. | Kansas | Volcanic activity | |||
Westerville Chert | 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 |
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 | 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 |