Texas Lithic Material
Name |
Natural |
Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
1604 Chert Edwards Chert variation |
Ranges from a gray to medium brown with tints of pink or light maroon commonly present. | South central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |||
Abo Sandstone | Laminated sandstone that ranges from a tan to a dark red or purple | West Texas | Abo Sandstone Formation | |||
Agate Jasper (Generic Type) |
Ranges from yellow to brown or green. Part if the material will be banded and be translucent while the remaining material will be mottled and opaque. | Western Texas | ||||
Aleman Ribbon Chert | Ranges from a dark gray to white or red. Chalcedony occurs as veins, bird eye like vugs, and fossil replacement. | Western Texas | Aleman Member of the Montoya Formation | |||
Alibates Agatized Dolomite AKA: Alibates Flint |
Primarily banded, speckles, or mottled with colors commonly ranging from red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white. | Northern Texas | Quartermaster Formation | |||
Allamoore Ribbon Chert | Western Texas | Allamoore Formation | ||||
Andesite Generic Type |
North America | Varies | ||||
Apple Ranch Chert | Brown | Western Texas | Apple Ranch Limestone Member of the Word Formation | |||
Argillite (Generic type) |
Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray | North America | ||||
Balmorhea Blue Agate AKA: Toyah Agate |
Ranges from a light blue gray to a dark blue gray, lavender, and white with bands of slight gray to lighter blues. | Western Texas | ||||
Bangor Agate AKA: St. Louis |
Northeastern Texas | |||||
Basalt (Generic Type) |
Ranges from black to gray | Western North America | ||||
Big Bend Moss Agate AKA: Big Bend Plume Agate |
Matrix that ranges from white to a clear blue or carnelian with brown green, red, or orange plumes or dendritic inclusions. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Big Bend Petrified Wood | Shades of brown with wood grain and rings present. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Big Bend Yellow Jasper | Commonly a mottled yellow with reds occurring. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Brazos River Chert AKA: Brazo River Pebble Chert, Mineral Wells Chert |
Most commonly light colored but green, black, yellow, and red, banding may occur. | East central Texas | Mineral Wells Formation | |||
Brushy Creek Chert Edwards Chert variation |
Slightly translucent and ranges in color from black to a dark medium gray. | East central Texas | Edwards Plateau Limestone Formation | |||
Bug-eyed Agate | Colors of clear, white, green, blue, and pink. Eyes. tubes, dendrites and fortifications are present. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Burro Mesa Chert | Colors from whites to grays, grays to blue, pinks and reds, and tan to yellow. It can be solid, mottles, or banded. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Butterscotch Chert | Ranges from a light brown to a dark yellowish brown. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Caballos Novaculite AKA: Santiago Chert |
Primarily white. However, the upper and middle layers range from a banded multi color white, light green, light red, and light browns. | Western Texas | Caballos Novaculite Formation | |||
Camp Colorado Chert | Ranges from a dark grayish black to black. | Eastern Texas | Camp Colorado Limestone Member of the Pueblo Formation | |||
Canadian River Plume Agate | Plumes of red, black, and yellow. | Northern Texas | ||||
Cannel Coal | Ranges from a dark gray to black | Texas | ||||
Canutillo Chert AKA: Texas Oil Chert |
Ranges from a mottled light brown to dark
brown or black. |
Western Texas | Canutillo Limestone Formation | |||
Carnelian (Generic Type) |
Translucent and varies in shades from reddish brown to reddish orange. | North America | Varies | |||
Catahoula Petrified Wood | Includes petrified elm, oak, hickory, and palm wood and contains shades of white, brown, cream, and tan with wood grain or rings present. | Southeastern Texas | Catahoula Formation | |||
Cienega Brown Chert | Ranges from a cream or tan to a yellowish or orangish brown. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Chickachoc Chert | Ranges in color from a rich tan to a grayish brown or black. | Northern Texas | Chickachoc Chert Member of the Wapanucka Formation | |||
Cowhouse Chert | Most common color is white ranging to gray or brown. Speckles, mottled, streaking, and fossiliferous hash, novaculite and petrified wood. | East central Texas | Cowhouse gravels | |||
Cow Plop Chert AKA: Scarborough Ranch Chert |
Gray to brown | East central Texas | ||||
Dacite Generic Type |
Most commonly a light to dark gray or black | Western North America | Varies | |||
Dakota Quartzite AKA: Dakota Orthoquartzite |
Ranges in color from reds to browns | Northwestern Texas | 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 | Northwestern Texas | Day Creek dolomite of the Cloud Chief formation | |||
Devil's River Chert
AKA: Santa Elena Cahert |
Ranges from a light gray to light brown and may be brecciated. | Southwestern Texas | Devils River Limestone Formation | |||
Dimple Hills Chert | Black | Southwestern Texas | Dimple Hills Limestone Formation | |||
Edwards Plateau Chert | Ranges in color from most commonly light gray to brown or a medium gray. May have numerous short linear fossil inclusions. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |||
El Sauz Chert | Predominantly light to medium gray may exhibiting mottling of pink, red, yellow, orange, purple, green and light browns. | Southern Texas | Catahoula Formation | |||
Ellenburger Chert | Ranges from white to a light yellow or light gray. | Central Texas | Ellenburger Limestone Formation | |||
El Paso Chert | Ranges from a medium light gray to olive gray dolomite to a light tan to gray or olive gray with reddish or bluish streaks occasionally present. | Western Texas | El Paso Limestone Formation | |||
Etholen Chert | Ranges from gray to a light pinkish gray, black, or dark purple with darker colors being the most common. | Western Texas | Etholen Conglomerate Formation | |||
Evant Chert | Ranges from a whitish gray to a medium gray. Mottling with shades of brown may be present. | Central Texas | ||||
Felsite (Generic Type) |
Generally white to light gray or reddish or tan with darker speckles being present. | Texas | ||||
Fire Engine Jasper | Red | Eastern Texas | Brazos River Gravels | |||
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. | Northeastern Texas | 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. | Northeastern Texas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian Group | |||
Florence Chert - Type C | Homogenous gray | Northeastern Texas | 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. | Northeastern Texas | Florence Limestone Member, Barnestone Formation, Permian | |||
Fort Hood Chert Edwards Chert variation |
Ranges from a brownish yellow to light to dark gray, banding or speckles may be present. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |||
Fort Pena Chert | Ranges from shades of purple, red, and blue | Western Texas | Fort Pena Formation | |||
Fusselman Dolomite / Chert | Ranges from a light gray to an olive gray or brownish gray. | Western Texas | Fusselman Dolomite Formation | |||
Georgetown Chert AKA: Texas Tortilla Chert |
Varying shades of gray. | Central Texas | Georgetown Member of the Edwards A Formation | |||
Guadalupe River Gravel Chert | Varies in color based on the formation that the chert was originally formed, highest concentration is Edwards Chert. | Southeastern Texas | Guadalupe River Gravels | |||
Hamilton County Chert |
Ranges from a light brown to a light brownish gray or light yellowish gray, mottling may be present. | Central Texas | ||||
Heiner Lake Chert Edwards Chert variation |
Ranges from a tan to a light blue or blue. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |||
Lenora Park Chert | Light gray | Central Texas | ||||
Leon River Chert | Wide range of colors including shades of brown, gray, and white. | Northeastern Texas | Leon River Gravels (various formations) | |||
Leonard Chert | Yellowish | Western Texas | Leonard Formation | |||
Llano River Chert | Wide range of colors including shades of brown, gray, and white. | Central Texas | Llano River Gravels | |||
Manning Fused Glass | Colors of grayish white, black, red, and purple. | Eastern Texas | Manning Formation | |||
Maravillas Chert AKA: Maravillas Gap Chert, Canyon Chert |
Ranges from a dark gray to black, fine white chalcedony veins or fine pale green banding may be present. | Southwestern Texas | Maravillas Formation | |||
Marble Falls Chert | Ranges from a dark gray to black | Central Texas | Marble Falls Limestone Formation | |||
Marfa Plume Agate | Transparent to translucent matrix with dense black, metallic yellow, and less frequently, white plumes. | Western Texas | ||||
McKnight Chert | Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Southwestern Texas | McKnight Formation of the Atascosa Group | |||
Montoya Chert | Shades of pink | Western Texas | Montoya Formation | |||
Needle Peak Agate | Mottled whitish tan to a light brown or dark yellowish brown, fortified agate, moss agate and pom pom agate also occurs. | Western Texas | ||||
Novaculite AKA: Arkansas Novaculite, Ouachita Novaculite (Generic Type) |
Range from white to light gray or black | Texas | Varies | |||
Nueces River Chert | Colors ranges from white to shades of brown or gray. | Southeastern Texas | Varies | |||
Obsidian AKA: Volcanic Glass (Generic type) |
Black to black with bands of dark reds (mahogany obsidian) or white flakes (snowflake obsidian) | Western North America | Volcanic | |||
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 | Northern Texas | 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. | Northern Texas | Ogallala Formation | |||
Owl Creek Black Chert Edwards Chert variation |
Ranges from a dark gray to black, small white speckles may be present. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |||
Palmwood AKA: Petrified Palmwood |
Ranges from white to yellowish white or cream with specks or streaks of
brown to yellowish brown. |
Eastern Texas | Catahoula Formation | |||
Pedernales River Amoeba Chert AKA: Amoeba Chert, Abiquiq Chert |
Ranges in color from light tan to dark brown. | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |||
Petrified Wood AKA: Agatized Wood, Opalized Wood |
Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process | North America | Varies | |||
Pisgah Ridge Chert AKA: Tehuacana Chert |
Black with small white speckles weathering white | Northeastern Texas | Tehuacana Limestone Member of the Kincaid Formation | |||
Pom Pom Agate | Soft green to colorless matrix with clear yellow "pom pom" inclusions. | Western Texas | ||||
Potter Chert | Mottled with shades of white, gray, blue, and yellow. | Northern Texas | Potter Member of the Ogallala Formation | |||
Rancheria Chert | Porous ranging from gray to brown and weathering brown | Western Texas | Rancheria Formation | |||
Ranger Chert | Brown | North central Texas | Ranger Limestone Member of the Brad Formation | |||
Red River Jasper AKA: Kiamichi Chert |
ranges from an orangish red to a greenish gray with iron pyrite inclusions commonly present. | Northeastern Texas | Possible Woodford Formation | |||
Rhyolite (Generic Type) |
Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | North America | Volcanic Activity | |||
Rio Grande River Chert | Wide variety of colors with the most common being shades of cream, tan, and brown. Petrified wood and quartzite also occur | Western Texas | Rio Grande river gravels. | |||
Rio Grande Valley Wood | Shades of white, gray, brown, red, and black with wood rings and grain present. | Southwestern Texas | Goliad Formation | |||
Root Beer Chert Edwards Chert variation |
Ranges from a medium to dark brown or grayish brown and may range from homogenous to having swirls or streaking | Central Texas | Edwards Limestone Formation | |||
Salmon Peak Chert |
Southwestern Texas | Salmon Peak Formation | ||||
Santiago Chert (Caballos Novaculite) |
Banded with primarily green, but dull shades of red, gray, brown, yellow, and white are also present. | Western Texas | Santiago Chert Member of the Caballos Novaculite | |||
Stockweather Chert | Ranges from yellowish to a pale whitish yellow | Central Texas | Stockweather Limestone Member of the Pueblo Formation | |||
Taylor Ranch Chert | Orangish brown color | Southwestern Texas | Taylor Ranch Limestone Member of the Hess Formation | |||
Tecovas Jasper AKA: Quitague Jasper |
Ranges from variegated or mottled red, blue, purple, brown, cream, and white | Northern Texas | Tecovas Formation | |||
Tessman Ranch Wood | Colors of yellow, tan, browns, and white with rings or grains commonly present. | Southern Texas | ||||
Thistle Agate | Matrix of translucent gray or green with fine white or yellow starburst or pom poms. | Southern Texas | ||||
Thunderbird Rhyolite | Ranges from a dark purplish gray or black with brownish red inclusions to a reddish brown with dark purplish gray or black inclusions. | Western Texas | Thunderbird Formation | |||
Tuff AKA: Solidified Volcanic Ash |
Contains greater than 75 volcanic ash and ranges from white to tan, gray or pink. | North America | Volcanic activity | |||
Uvalde Chert AKA: Twelvemile Creek Chert |
Ranges from most commonly from tan to brown with white, blue, gray, and pink cherts also occurring. | Southeastern Texas | Uvalde Gravels | |||
Van Horn Purple & Tan Chert | Ranges from a mottled pale to medium purple or a mottled light to medium tan, purplish tan or grayish orange. | Western Texas | ||||
Van Horn Spotted Chert | Ranges from a brownish red to a grayish red, pale orange, or grayish purple with spots or patches of white, or reversed colors. | Western Texas | ||||
Van Horn White Chert | Ranges from a mottled white to medium light gray or pinkish gray. | Western Texas | ||||
Vidrio Chert | Uniform dark to light gray | Western Texas | Vidrio Massive Member of the Captain Limestone Formation | |||
Willis Chert | Great variation of color, most commonly shades of brown and tan, but may range to white to pink or black. Petrified Wood also occurs. | Southeastern Texas | Willis Gravel Formation | |||
Woodward Ranch Agate AKA: Alpine Agate |
Includes both plume, flower, and banded agates with plumes of red and black and pink banded agate. | Southwestern Texas | ||||
Wylie Mountain Agate AKA: Van Horn Butterscotch Agate |
Ranges from a mottled whitish tan to a light brown or dark yellowish brown or a mottled whitish pink to a dusty red. | Western Texas |