Color:  Polk Creek Chert is black

Texture:

Luster:

Translucency:  Opaque

Silica Fabrics / Fossils: Graptolites

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Distribution Comments:

Polk Creen Chert is associated with the Polk Creek Shale Formation of the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma.  Primarily occurs as nodules along Polk Creek, Montgomery County, Arkansas.