Oklahoma Lithic Material
Name |
Natural |
Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Ada Petrified Wood |
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Colors of tan, brown, white, and black | Southern Oklahoma | Antlers Sandston formation | |
Alibates Agatized Dolomite AKA: Alibates Flint |
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Primarily banded, speckles, or mottled with colors commonly ranging from red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white. | Western Oklahoma | Quartermaster Formation | |
Andesite Generic Type |
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Arbuckle Chert |
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Oolitic and ranges from a tan to a light gray color. | North central Oklahoma | Arbuckle Formation, Osage Group |
Argillite (Generic type) |
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Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray | North America | ||
Arkansas Nocaculite |
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Ranges from white to light to dark grays and black, pinks to red, and tan to browns. | Southeastern Oklahoma | Arkansas Novaculite Formation | |
Arnold Chert |
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Smoky chert | South central Oklahoma | Arnold Member of the Deese Formation |
Atoka Argillite |
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Ranges in color from a dark gray to black | Northeastern Oklahoma | Atoka formation | |
Atoka Siltstone |
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Ranges from a medium to dark gray | Northeastern Oklahoma | Atoka formation | |
Baldy Hill Jasper AKA: Cimarron River Jasper |
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Mottled color from most commonly varying shades of reds and yellows. | Western Oklahoma | Baldy Hill Formation | |
Barren Fork Chert |
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Barren Fork Chert ranges from a light to
medium gray or a tan. |
Northeastern Oklahoma | Sallisaw Formation |
Battiest Chert AKA: Smithville Chert |
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Ranges from a dark bluish gray to black with small white veins of quartz commonly present. | Southeastern Oklahoma | Battiest Chert Member of the Tenmile Creek Formation, Stanley Group |
Bayou Manard Chert AKA: Red Bird Chert |
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Black chert with white fossil specks | Northeastern Oklahoma | Bayou Menard Member of the Moorefield Formation |
Big Fork Chert AKA: Bigfork Chert |
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Ranges from black to a dark gray | East central Oklahoma | Bigfork Formation |
Black Mesa Agate / Jasper |
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Western Oklahoma | |||
Blaylock Sandstone |
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Ranges in color from tan to dark gray or greenish. | East central Oklahoma | Silurian Formation | |
Bois d'Arc Chert |
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Ranges from a light bluish gray to a yellowish gray or red. Tiny black or rust color inclusions or mottling of red and gray may be present. | South central Oklahoma | Cravett Member of the Bois d'Arch Formation |
Boley Agate |
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Brecciated chert / jasper with a chalcedony cement of clear, red, black or brown with fragments of green, black, white, tan, or red. | East central Oklahoma | ||
Boone Chert AKA: Sallisaw Chert, Grand Falls Chert, Ti Valley Chert |
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Ranges from a light gray to white | Northeastern Oklahoma | Boone Limestone Formation |
Carnelian (Generic Type) |
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Translucent and varies in shades from reddish brown to reddish orange. | North America | Varies | |
Cherokee Chert |
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Kansas, Oklahoma | ||
Cheyenne Quartzite |
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Kansas, Oklahoma | Cheyenne Sandstone Formation | ||
Chickachoc Chert |
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Ranges in color from a rich tan to a grayish brown or black. | South central Oklahoma | Chickachoc Chert Member of the Wapanucka Formation |
Chickasaw Creek Chert |
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Black with white speckles | Southeastern Oklahoma | Chickasaw Creek Member of the Jackfork Formation |
Cochrane Chert |
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Primarily a light color, but may range to black. Commonly has a breccia appearance | Central Oklahoma | Cochrane Member of the Chimneyhill Formation, Hunton Group |
Cotter Chert AKA: Swan Creek Chert |
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Ranges in color from a light gray or blue with light tan to white banding. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Cotter Formation |
Crushman Chert |
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Mottled dark gray | Northeastern Oklahoma | Boone Limestone formation |
Crystal Mountain Quartz |
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Ranges from a white to a light pink or light gray. | Southeastern Oklahoma | Crystal Mountain Sandstone Formation | |
Dakota Quartzite AKA: Dakota Orthoquartzite |
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Ranges in color from reds to browns | Western Oklahoma | 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 | Western Oklahoma | Day Creek dolomite of the Cloud Chief formation | |
Eucha Chert AKA: Spaviaw Chert, Euchaleda Chert |
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Banded and ranges from white to gray or yellowish gray | Northeastern Oklahoma | |
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. | North central Oklahoma | Florence Limestone Member of the Barnestone Formation |
Flint Hills Quartzite |
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North central Oklahoma | |||
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. | Central to eastern Oklahoma | 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. | Central to eastern Oklahoma | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group |
Florence Chert - Type C |
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Homogenous gray | Central to eastern Oklahoma | 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. | Central to eastern Oklahoma | 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. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Foraker Limestone Formation |
Fort Scott Chert AKA: Bixby Black Chert |
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Ranges from a dark bluish black to black. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Fort Scott Limestone Formation of the Henrietta (Marmaton) Group |
Frisco Chert |
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Ranges from white to a light gray or light yellowish gray or pale greenish yellow. | Eastern Oklahoma | Frisco Limestone Formation |
Grand Falls Chert Boone Chert variation |
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Light gray color and may vary to brown | Northeastern Oklahoma | Grand Falls Member of the Boone Formation |
Hindsville Chert |
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Ranges from a gray bluish gray with mottling of light blue to blue, gray, and light browns. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Hindsville Limestone Member of the Batesville Formation |
Ideal Quarry Chert |
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Ranges from a light brown to a yellowish brown or an olive gray. | Central Oklahoma | Ideal Quarry Member of the Chimneyhill Formation, Hunton Group |
Jackfork Chert |
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Ranges from a medium gray to a brownish gray | Southeastern Oklahoma | Jackfork Formation |
John's Valley Chert |
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Ranges in color from a bluish black to a gray or chocolate brown. It is a variegated or marbled chert. | Eastern Oklahoma | John's Valley Shale formation |
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. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Keokuk Formation of the St. Joes Group |
Lindsey Bridge Chert |
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Ranges in color from white to tan or blue. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Lindsey Bridge Limestone Member of the Moorefield Formation |
Mazarn Chert |
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Glossy black | Southeastern Oklahoma | Mazarn Shale Formation |
Moyers Chert |
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Ranges from a dark greenish gray to black | Southeastern Oklahoma | Moyers Formation |
Neva Chert |
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White | North central Oklahoma | Neva Limestone Member of the Grenola Formation |
Novaculite (Generic Type) |
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Range from white to light gray or black | Southern Oklahoma | Varies | |
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 Oklahoma | 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 Oklahoma | Ogallala Formation | |
Oolagah Chert |
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Ranging in color from varying shades of grays to bluish gray with banding or mottling . | Northeastern Oklahoma | Oolagah Limestone Formation, Tulsa Group |
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. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Osage Series |
Ouachita Novaculite AKA: Pinetop Chert |
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Range from white to light gray or black | Southeastern Oklahoma | Ouachita Novaculite Formation | |
Petrified Wood AKA: Agatized Wood, Opalized Wood |
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Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process | North America | Varies | |
Peoria Chert AKA: Tahlequah Chert |
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Primarily white but ranges to a pale yellowish what to a yellowish brown or pink | Northeastern Oklahoma | Tahlequah Member of the Moorefield Formation |
Pinetop Chert AKA: Brushy Creek Chert |
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Ranges in color from a white to a beige or light to dark gray. | Southeastern Oklahoma | Pinetop Formation |
Pitkin Chert |
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Ranges from a dark bluish gray to black with light blue occurring. White speckles commonly present | Northeastern Oklahoma | Pitkin Limestone Formation |
Pumpkin Creek Chert |
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Bluish color | South central Oklahoma | Pumpkin Creek Limestone Formation |
Red River Jasper AKA: Kiamichi Chert |
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ranges from an orangish red to a greenish gray with iron pyrite inclusions commonly present. | Southeastern Oklahoma | Possible Woodford 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. | Northeastern Oklahoma | <Reed Springs Formation |
Rhyolite (Generic Type) |
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Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | North America | 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 | North central Oklahoma | Schroyer Member, Wrenford Limestone Formation |
Skiatook Agatized Wood |
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Shades of white, gray, and brown with wood grain and rings commonly present. | Northeastern Oklahoma | ||
Smithville Chert |
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Black | Southeastern Oklahoma | Smithville Chert Member of the Stanley Shale 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 | Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma | Smoky Hills Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation | |
Stanley Chert |
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Ranges from a dark greenish gray to black | Southeastern Oklahoma | Stanley Shale Formation |
Tahlequah Chert |
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Ranges from a white to a light gray and may have spotting of a olive gray. | Northeastern Oklahoma | Tahlequa Member of the Moorefield Formation |
Talihina Chert |
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Upper member is a stratified blue, greenish, and white while the lower member is a stratified black, bluish, and white | East central Oklahoma | Talihina Chert Member |
Tecovas Jasper AKA: Quitague Jasper |
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Ranges from variegated or mottled red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white | Western Oklahoma | Tecovas Formation |
Three Mile Chert Wreford Chert Variant AKA: Wreford Chert type A, Fourmile Chert |
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Yellowish brown | Northeastern Oklahoma | Threemile Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation, Permian 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. | North America | Volcanic activity | |
Turkey Creek Chert |
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Ranges from a white to a light gray | Central Oklahoma | Turkey Creek Inlier |
Viola Chert |
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Ranges from a light tan color to light gray or bluish | Southern Oklahoma | Viola Limestone Formation |
Wapanucka Chert |
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Mottled and striated gray chert. | Southern Oklahoma | Wapanucka Member of the Atoka Formation |
Webber's Falls Siltstone AKA: Arkansas Argillite |
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Ranges from a greenish gray to dark gray or black. | East central Oklahoma | Webber's Falls Member of the Atoka Formation | |
Woodford Chert |
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Ranges in color from a light gray to a light olive gray or black. Lighter variations do occur ranging from a pale yellow to a tan. | Southeastern Oklahoma | Woodford Formation |
Wreford Chert Type A AKA: Three Mile Chert |
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Ranges from a buff or tan to a grayish tan color, medium fine grain | Northeastern Oklahoma | Threemile Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation |
Wreford Chert Type B AKA: Schroyer Chert |
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Ranges from a bluish gray to a gray and may be mottled or splotched with darker gray with speckles of small white fossils | Northeastern Oklahoma | Schroyer Limestone Member, Wreford Limestone Formation |
Wreford Chert Type C |
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Ranges from a brownish gray to a bluish gray or dark gray with prominent banding | Northeastern Oklahoma | Wreford Limestone Formation |