Virginia Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Aaron Slate AKA: Sandy Tuff |
Ranges from a pure greenstone to a almost pure argillite | Southeastern Virginia | Aaron Formation of the Virginia Carolina Slate Belt | |||
Abbyville Gabbro | Dark greenish gray | Southeastern Virginia | Abbyville Gabbro Formation | |||
Accomack Mudstone | Ranges in color from a light or medium brown to a yellowish mustard brown. | Eastern Virginia | Yorktown and Omar formation estuarine deposits | |||
Allentown Chert | Ranges from a medium to dark gray with white streamers with banding commonly present. Oolitic and stromatolitic. | Northern Virginia | Allentown Formation | |||
Allentown Quartzite | Ranges from a very light gray to a medium light gray. | Northern Virginia | Allentown Formation | |||
Amber Chalcedony AKA: Weathering Amber Chalcedony |
When freshly fractured is a translucent amber with snowflake like inclusions, when weathered has a chalky white to yellow appearance | Southeastern Virginia | ||||
Antietam Quartzite | Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red, a greenish brown variation is reported | Northern Virginia | Antietam Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |||
Argillite (Generic type) |
Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | North America | Varies | |||
Arnolds Valley Jasper AKA: Rockbridge Jasper |
Ranges in color from yellow to red with white streaks of quart. | North central Virginia | Chilhower Group | |||
Arvonia Slate | Ranges from a dark gray to a grayish black. | Northern Virginia | Arvonia Formation | |||
Beasley Bay Jasper | Ranges from a mustard yellow to a brownish yellow or red. | Eastern Virginia | Kent Island Formation | |||
Becraft Chert | Light bluish gray to medium gray or black | New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia | Becraft Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Group | |||
Beekmantown Chert AKA: Narrows Chert |
Dark gray often fossiliferous. | Northern Virginia | Beekmantown Formation | |||
Bellefonte Chert | Ranges from a light to medium gray | Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia | Bellefonte Dolomite Formation of the Beekmantown Group. | |||
Berea Sandstone | Ranges in color from a light gray to a buff | Northwestern Virginia | Waverly Group | |||
Bonifant Jasper AKA: Bonnefont Jasper |
Mottled mustard yellow to a yellowish brown or a variegated red | East central Virginia | porphyoblastic garnet-biotite gneiss formation | |||
Bourne Chert AKA: Brunswick County Chert |
Predominantly brown to cream, red, or violet, but ranges from pink, yellow, brown, orange, and light blue also occur. | East central Virginia | ||||
Bremo Quartzite | Light gray | East central Virginia | Bremo Quartzite Member of the Arvonia Formation | |||
Broad Run Chalcedony AKA: Wissahickon Chalcedony |
Ranges in color from a mottled white to light gray or cream to yellow. Black specks are present through the material. | Northeastern Virginia | Wissahickon Formation | |||
Brook Run Jasper | Ranges from a mustard yellow to a yellowish brown or red with white quartz streaks running through the material. | Northern Virginia | ||||
Buffards Quartzite | Ranges from a milky white quartz to a dusty red quartzite. | Central Virginia | Buffards Quartzite Member of the Arvonia Formation | |||
Calvert Silicified Sandstone | Ranges from a light gray to a bluish gray or dark gray | Eastern Virginia | Calvert Formation, Chesapeake Group | |||
Catoctin Greenstone AKA: Catoctin Metabasalt |
Ranges from a green to a greenish gray or gray. | Northern Virginia | Catoctin Formation | |||
Catoctin Metarhyolite AKA: Highland Metarhyolite |
Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, blue, or purple. Banding, mottling, or breccia with a tannish color may be present. | Northern Virginia | Catoctin Formation | |||
Chepultepec Chert
Knox Chert Variant (Ridge and Valley Chert) |
Ranges from yellow to white and oolitic | Western Virginia | Chapultepec Member of the Knox Formation | |||
Chilhowee Mudstone | greenish-gray in color | Western Virginia | Chilhowee Group | |||
Coeymans Chert AKA: New Creek Chert |
ranges in color from a bluish black to black. Cloudy patches of fine pyrite and quartz may be present. | Northern Virginia | Coeymans Limestone Formation (New Creek Formation), Helderberg Group | |||
Conococheague Chert | Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, brownish gray, or black. Small blue to white inclusions may be present. | Western Virginia | Conococheague Limestone Formation | |||
Copper Ridge Chert (Ridge and Valley Chert) |
Ranges in color from medium to dark gray to black | Western Virginia | Copper Ridge Member of the Knox formation | |||
Crystal Quartz | clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Eastern North America | ||||
Culpepper Hornfels | Range from a brown to reddish brown or greenish brown and gray to black. | Northern Virginia | ||||
Erwin Quartzite AKA: Erwin - Antietam Quartzite, Hesse Quartzite |
Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red. A green brown variation is reported in Amherst County, Virginia | Southern Virginia | Erwin Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |||
Flint Run Jasper | Mottled mustard yellow to brown, but gray, red, blue, and green also occur as streaking or inclusions and quartz inclusions. | Northern Virginia | Between the Beekmantown Formation and the Blue Ridge Formation | |||
Fort Chiswell Chalcedony | Mottled with light colors of white tan, and gray. | Western Virginia | ||||
Fort Payne Chert AKA: Iuka Chert, Lauderdale Chert |
Ranges in color from black to a grayish blue, or white to a bluish white. Bluish gray is the predominate color with bluish hues | Western Virginia | Fort Payne Formation | |||
Greenbrier Chert AKA: Alderson Chert |
Ranges in color from light to dark grays, browns, black, and pale red. | Northwestern Virginia | Greenbrier Formation | |||
Hardy Creek Chert | Ranges from a brown to a gray or an olive black | Western Virginia | Hardy Creek Limestone Formation | |||
Harpers Ferry Quartzite AKA: Oolitic Quartzite |
Ranges from a light gray to light blue with round speckles colored dark gray to a bluish gray or cream to light gray | Eastern Virginia | Possible Harpers Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |||
Helderberg Chert | Ranges from mottled white to light cream, light gray, and light blue commonly mottled and fossiliferous. | Northern Virginia | Helderberg Group | |||
Hillsdale Chert | Black weathering gray. | Northwestern Virginia | Hillsdale Limestone Formation | |||
Honaker Chert / Dolomite AKA: Nolichucky Chert |
Dolomite is a light to medium gray with banding present, minor chert nodules of dark gray to black with algal banding | Western Virginia | Honaker Formation / Nolichucky Formation | |||
Hunterville Chert | Ranges from a yellowish gray to a gray or dark gray. | North central Virginia | Hunterville Chert Formation of the Oriskany Group | |||
Indian Run Chert | Mottled with shaded of medium to dark gray and white. | North central Virginia | ||||
Kanawha Black Chert | Vary from a black to a bluish black /gray to a dark gray | Northwestern Virginia | Kanawha Formation, Pottsville Group | |||
Kingsport Chert | Ranges from white to a medium to dark gray. | Western Virginia | Kingsport Formation of the Beekmantown Group | |||
Knox Chert | Dark blue to bluish gray with translucent mottling. Red Knox Chert has a reddish color with slight mottling. | Western Virginia | Knox Formation | |||
Laurel Run Chert | Ranges from a light to dark gray or black with tan, pink, and white also occurring. | Western Virginia |
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Lenoir Chert | Dark Gray | Western Virginia | Lenoir Limestone Formation | |||
Libertytown Metarhyolite | Ranges from a dark purplish to a bluish black or red with macrophenocycts of pink and white feldspar. | Northern Virginia | Libertytown Metarhyolite Formation | |||
Licking Creek Chert |
Black with sandy texture inclusions. | Northern Virginia | Licking Creek Member of the Helderberg Formation | |||
Lincolnshire Chert AKA: Murat Chert |
Ranges from a very dark gray to olive black. | Western Virginia | Lincolnshire Limestone Formation of the Cliffeld Group | |||
Little Cattail Creek
Chert / Chalcedony AKA: Williamson Chert, Dinwiddie Chert |
The most common colors range from a light tan to brown and gray to blue with a mottled creamy gray-blue being the most common. | Southeastern Virginia | ||||
Liver Jasper | Red liver colored jasper with hematite spherules | Northern Virginia | ||||
Longview Chert Knox variation |
Primarily reddish, but white to gray colors do occur | Western Virginia | Longview Member of the Knox formation | |||
Luray Jasper | Maroon red with epidote inclusions | Northern Virginia | ||||
Macot Dolomite / Chert | Ranges from white to a light to medium gray with with mottling or streaking ranging from pink to red or green | Western Virginia | Mascot Dolomite Formation of the Newala Group | |||
Mitchell Chert | Ranges from white to dark brown with the most common colors being from a light cream to yellow, light gray to blue, and pink to violet. | Southeastern Virginia | ||||
Mogothy Quartzite AKA: Magothy Quartzite |
Ranges in color from gray to bluish gray or purple, banding or mottling may be present. Small fossils may give a peppered appearance. | Northeastern Virginia | Mogothy Formation | |||
Morrow Mountain Rhyolite AKA: Uwharrie Rhyolite |
Homogeneous dark gray to black and many shades of green, flow banding may be present. | South central Virginia | ||||
Mount Rodgers Rhyolite | Ranges in color from a dark white to gray and light pink to purple with banding being present | Southwestern Virginia | Mount Rodgers Formation | |||
Newman Chert | Ranges in color from yellow to tan, red, and orange | Western Virginia | Newman Limestone formation | |||
New Market Chert AKA: Row Park Chert |
Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland | New Market Limestone Formation of the St. Paul Group | |||
New Scotland Chert AKA: Corriganville Chert |
Ranges from a white to very light colors. | Northern Virginia | New Scotland Formation (Corriganville Formation) of the Helderberg Group | |||
Nittany Chert | Ranges from a medium to dark gray with siliceous oolites. Red jasper also occurs in this formation. | Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia | Nittany Dolomite Formation, Beekmantown Group | |||
Nottoway River Quartzite |
Two variations, one is a light blue and the other is a root beer brown. |
Southern Virginia | ||||
Oriskany Solicified Sandstone | White | Northern Virginia | Oriskany Sandstone Formation | |||
Orthoquartzite (Generic type) |
Varies | North America | Varies | |||
Patuxent - Mattaponi Quartzite AKA: Mattaponi Quartzite |
Ranges from gray to a white, light yellow, pink or red. range sin color from a dark white to gray, cream to yellow, and pink to red. | Northwestern Virginia | Patuxent / Mattaponi Formation | |||
Patton Chert |
Ranges from a dark gray to black. |
Western Virginia | Patton Limestone Member of the Greenbrier Limestone Formation | |||
Pinesburg Station Chert | Ranges from a white to very light gray. | Northern Virginia | Pinesburg Station Formation of the Beekmantown Group | |||
Point of Rocks Jasper | Ranges from a mustard yellow to a yellowish brown with grays also occurring. | Northeastern Virginia | ||||
Poteet Chert | Ranges from a dark olive gray to olive black. | Western Virginia | Poteet Limestone Formation | |||
Quartz |
Milky white with thin veins |
North America | ||||
Quartzite | Varies from white to gray, or pink and tan in color | North America | ||||
Rhyolite | Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | Eastern North America | ||||
Rich Patch Chert | Primarily a light to dark gray, but white to pink, cream, brown and grayish browns occur. | Northwestern Virginia | ||||
Ridgely Quartzite | Ranges from white to a light tan or a medium gray or pink. | Northern Virginia | Ridgely Sandstone Member of the Oriskany Formation | |||
Rockdale Run Chert |
Ranges from a light to medium gray. |
Northern Virginia | Rockdale Run Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group | |||
Rose Hill Quartzite AKA: Ferruginous Quartzite, Hematitic Sandstone |
Ranges in color from a brownish purple to a medium purple or a blood red. | Northwestern Virginia | Rose Hill Formation | |||
Runion Agate | Black to brown plume agate | Northern Virginia | ||||
Shear Zone Chalcedony (Mylonite) |
Ranges from a translucent white to yellow, pink, or orange and commonly has inclusions or patches of green or gray. | Northwestern Virginia | ||||
Shady Chert | Ranges from a bluish gray to a yellowish gray blue, or white with mottling commonly present. | Western Virginia | Shady Dolomite Formation | |||
Shiver Chert | Ranges in color from a medium gray to black | Northern Virginia | Shiver Formation of the Helderberg Group | |||
Sideling Hill Chert | Ranges from a grayish blue to a medium to dark gray or white. Streaking or banding may be present. | Northwestern Virginia | Probably New Creek Limestone Formation (Coeymans Formation). | |||
Sinks Grove Chert Greenbreir Chert variation |
Black weathering gray. | Western Virginia | Sinks Grove Limestone Member of the Greenbrier Limestone Formation | |||
Skidmore Island Chert | Homogenous and ranges from a white to a cream or light tan | Eastern Virginia | Unknown formation | |||
Stonehenge Chert AKA: Stonehenge - Chepultepec Chert |
Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Northern Virginia | Stonehenge Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group | |||
Tomstown Chert | Ranges from beds of bluish gray to a yellowish gray blue, or white with mottling commonly present and nodules of white. | Northern Virginia | Tomstown Dolomite Formation | |||
Trading Run Chert | Light color ranging from a mottled white to gray, cream to yellow, and pinks with iron staining commonly present. | Northern Virginia | Helderberg Formation | |||
Tuscarora Quartzite AKA: Massanutten Quartzite |
White and gray | Northern Virginia | Tuscarora Quartzite Formation of the Judy Gap Group | |||
Unakite | Mottled green and pink | Virginia | ||||
Virginia Beach Jasper | Ranges from a brownish yellow to a light yellowish tan, gray, or red. | Southeastern Virginia | Tabb Formation | |||
Waynesboro Chert AKA: Rome Chert |
Ranges from a very dark gray to black | Northwestern Virginia | Waynesboro Limestone Formation (Rome Limestone Formation) | |||
Weverton Quartzite | Feldspathic and ranges from a grayish white to medium light gray. | Northwestern Virginia | Buzzard Knob Member of the Weverton Quartzite Formation, Chilhowee Group | |||
Woodway Chert | Ranges from a dark gray to olive black. | Western Virginia | Woodway Limestone Formation |