Materials Identification Guide

North American Materials

 











Name Also Known As Variations Distribution Complete Description  Complete Pictures Added
Sacramento Mountains Wood          
Saddle Mountains Basalt          
Saddle Mountains Wood          
Sage Creek Wood          
Sagebrush Jasper          
Saginite          
Saglek Chert          
Salaberry-De-Valleyfield Chalcedony          
Salem Chert          
Salem Quartzite          
Sallisaw Chert          
Salmon Creek Chert Salmon Peak Chert        
Salt & Pepper Quartzite          
Saltville Chert          
San Andres Chert Fingerprint Chert        
San Angelo Chert          
San Antonio Mountain Dactite          
San Felipe Obsidian          
San Francisco Mountains Obsidian Type B (Agassiz Saddle)          
San Francisco Mountains Obsidian Type A (Fremont)          
San Gabriel Chert          
San Rafael Jasper          
San Tank Obsidian          
Sanders Chert          
Sandsuck Argillite          
Sangre de Cristos Chert          
Santa Cruz Island Chert          
Santa Elena Chert          
Santa Rita Turquoise          
Santee Chert          
Saratoga Valley Wood          
Sasema Jasper Kiwi Jasper        
Saugeen River Gravel Chert          
Saugus Jasper          
Saugus Rhyolite          
Savannah River Agate          
Sawatch Quartzite          
Scenk Chalcedony          
Schistose Quartzite          
Schmitt Chert          
Schoharie Chert Aquetuck Chert        
Schoharie Wood          
Schroyer Chert          
Schwartz Canyon Wood          
Scioto Chert          
Scoria          
Scotch Grove Chert          
Scotia Oolite Chert          
Scots Bay (mustard) Jasper          
Scott Canyon Radiolarian Chert          
Sedalia Chert          
Seldovia Wood          
Selkirk Chert Dundee Chert        
Selwyn Chert          
Seneca Sandstone          
Sentinel Butte Nadular Chert Miocene Chert        
Sentinel Butte Porcellanite          
Sentinel Butte Tabular Chert Miocene Chert        
Sepulvida Chert          
Sequoia Wood Sequoyah Wood, Sequoya Root Wood, Sequoia Root Wood        
Sequoya Wood Sequoia Root        
Serpentine          
Sespe Sandstone          
Setters Quartzite          
Setters Quartzite          
Seventy Six Basalt          
Severn River Gravel Chert          
Sewickley Chert          
Sexton's Creek Chert          
Sexton's Creek Quartzite          
Shady Chert          
Shadygrove Chert          
Shakopee Chert / Dolomite          
Shakopee Oolitic Chert          
Shale          
Shawangunk Conglomerate          
Shawnee Chert          
Shear Zone Chalcedony          
Sheep Creek Quartzite          
Sheguiandah Quartzite          
Sheldon Chert          
Shell Rock Chert          
Shelldon Chert          
Shemya Island Argillite          
Shenandoah Valley Chert          
Shequindah Quartzite          
Shinarump Agatized Wood          
Shippensburg Jasper          
Shirley Basin Wood          
Shiver Chert Old Port Chert        
Shoshone Falls Rhyolite          
Siding Hill Chert          
Siemens Creek Basalt          
Sierra Jasper Hornitas Jasper        
Signal Mountain Jasper          
Signal Wood          
Silicified Siltstone          
Silicified Coral          
Silicified Dinosaur Bone          
Silicified Fossilferous Sandstone          
Silicified Sandstone Sedimentary Quartzite        
Silicified Sandstone / Siltstone / Mudstone          
Silicified Siltstone Chert Pebbles          
Silurian Chert          
Silver Hill Quartzite          
Silver Mound Silicified Quartzite          
Similkameen Valley Chert          
Sinter          
Sioux Falls Jasper          
Sioux Quartzite          
Sitgreaves Mountain Obsidian          
Sixteen 0 Four (1604) Chert          
Skaggs Blue Jasper          
Skiatook Agatized Wood          
Skidmore Island Chert          
Skolai Pass Obsidian          
Skukum Rhyolite          
Skunnemunk Puddingstone          
Sky Hill Chert Mahoning Chert, Lawrence County Chert        
Slate          
Slate Jack Canyon Slate          
Slate Mountain Obsidian Wallace Tank Obsidian        
Slater Agate / Chalcedony          
Slaven Chert Slaven Radiolarian Chert, Srathearn Radiolarian Chert        
Sleeping Beauty Turquoise          
Smith Black Matrix Turquoise          
Smith Creek Wood          
Smokey Hill Jasper          
Smokey Hill Quartzite          
Smokey Hill Silicified Chalk          
Smokey Hills Chert          
Smokey Hills Jasper Niobrara        
Smokey Hills Quartzite          
Smokey Valley Turquoise          
Smoky Hills Jasper Niobrara        
Snake Hill Chert          
Snake River Gravel Chert          
Snake Valley Jasper          
Snakeskin Coral          
Snowville Turquoise          
Snyder Creek Chert          
Soapstone          
Soda Butte Wood          
Solidified Volcanic Ash          
Somerset Chert          
Somerville Chert          
Sonoma Creek Wood          
Sonora Flint Kentucky Blue Chert        
Sopris Jasper          
South Bend Chert          
South Hills Jasper          
South Mountain Chert          
South Park Wood (Type 1)          
South Park Wood (Type 12)          
South Park Wood (Type 5)          
Spanish Diggings Agate          
Spanish Diggings Chert          
Spanish Diggings Dendritic Jasper          
Spanish Diggings Quartzite          
Spanish Diggings Red Breccia          
Spanish Point Dendritic Agate          
Spavinaw Chert Eucha Chert        
Specimen Creek Wood          
Specimen Ridge Wood          
Spencer Opal          
Spergen Chert          
Spergen Crystalline Saccaroidal Dolomite        
Sperry Agatized Wood          
Sphalerite          
Spherulitic Rhyolite          
Spiculitic Chert          
Spider Web Jasper Peratite        
Spoon Chert          
Spor Mountain Jasper          
Spotted Ridge Argillite          
Spotted Ridge Chert          
Spring Branch Chert          
Spring Branch Chert          
Spring Branch Rhyolite          
Spring Canyon Jasper          
Spring Canyon Quartzite          
Spring Hill Chert          
Springtime Jasper          
Squaw Creek Opal          
St. Agatha Limestone          
St. Albans Chert Champlain Valley Chert, Hathaway Chert        
St. Andrews Quartzite          
St. David Chert          
St. Francois  Rhyolite          
St. Joe Chert          
St. Joe Chert          
St. John's Agate          
St. Johns Jasper          
St. Joseph Island Puddingstone          
St. Louis Chalcedony          
St. Louis Green Chert St. Louis Formation Chert        
Staghorn Coral          
Stanford Chert          
Stanley Chert          
Stanley Shale          
Starburst Coral          
Starved Rock Chert          
Ste. Genevieve Chert Kentucky Hornstone        
Steel Creek Chert          
Steens Mountain Basalt          
Stefoinite Brecciated Jasper          
Stennich Turquoise          
Stiger Wood (Type 1)          
Stiger Wood (Type 2)          
Stilbite          
Stinking Water Jasper          
Stinking Water Wood          
Stirling Quartzite          
Stockton Mudstone          
Stone Canyon Jasper          
Stone City Chert          
Stone Mountain Turquoise          
Stonehenge Chert          
Stoner Chert          
Stonewall Pass Agatized Wood          
Stoney Creek (Brecciated) Jasper          
Stoney Creek Chert          
Stoney Creek Gneiss          
Stoney Ridge Chert          
Stonyford Jasper          
Stooping River Gravel Chert          
Storey County Sinter          
Stormy Mountain Turquoise          
Strawberry Chert          
Stringtown Chert          
Stuart Fork Argillite          
Stuart Fork Chert          
Succor Creek Jasper          
Sudbury Melonite          
Suemez Island Obsidian Cape Felix Obsidian and Group Z Obsidian        
Sugar Creek Chert          
Sugarloaf Mountain Quartzite          
Summerville Chert          
Sump Agatized Wood          
Sunset Agate          
Sunset Jasper          
Susses County Petrified Wood          
Suwannee River Agatized Coral          
Suwannee River Chert Aucilla Chert        
Swan Creek jasper          
Swan Creek Quartzite          
Swan Peak Quartzite          
Swan River Chert          
Swan River Chert          
Swannee River Agatized Coral          
Swartz Canyon Wood          
Swauger Quartzite          
Sweet Home Wood          
Sweetwater Coral          
Sweetwater Moss Agate          
Syenite