Color:  Kanawha Black chert is a marine chert that may vary from a black to a bluish black /gray to a dark gray.

Texture:

Luster: Dull

Translucency:

Silica Fabrics / Fossils: Marine fossils

Patina:

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Distribution Comments:

Kanawha Black Chert / Flint is associated with the Kanawha Formation, Pottsville Group of West Virginia.  Primary outcroppings occur in the Kanawha River valley in West Virginia.  It is most abundant in Boone, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicolas, and Webster counties, West Virginia.