Color:  Conasauga Chert is most commonly a light bluish gray to tan or silver, rarely reds do occur.  Commonly mottled and is oolitic.  May be very chalcedonic

Texture: Fine grain, brittle

Luster:  Waxy

Translucency: 

Silica Fabrics / Fossils: Oolitic

Patina:

Heat Treatment:  Heat treatment produces a darker gray to black with a mottled luster.

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Distribution Comments:

Conasauga Chert is associated with the Conasauga Limestone Formation of Georgia primarily occurring as beds and nodules up to 8 inches along the Conasauga River and near Adairsville, Georgia, but is found in scatterings or nodules in Polk and Floyd counties, Georgia.  Primary outcroppings are also found in Bibb and Shelby county Alabama.