Indiana Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Allens Creek Chert Muldraugh variation AKA: Floyds Knob Chert |
Mottled and ranges in color from gray, tan, brown, and blue. May be translucent. | Central to southeastern Indiana | Muldraugh Formation of the Sanders Group | |||
Argillite | Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | Indiana | ||||
Attica Chert AKA: Indiana Greenstone and Independence Chert |
Ranges from a greenish gray to gray or blue-gray with occasional mottled or streaked with swirls of light to medium green | Central and west central Indiana | Muldraugh Formation of the Borden Group | |||
Bailey Chert | Extreme southwestern Indiana | Bailey Formation Limestone | ||||
Banded Slate | Indiana | |||||
Bayport Chert | Varies from light brown to a medium gray. White quartz inclusions can form white clouds or bulls eye forms in the material, Banding may be present. | Extreme northeastern Indiana | Bayport Limestone formation | |||
Beech Creek Chert | Indiana | Beech Creek Limestone formation | ||||
Bisher Chert AKA: Highland Chert, Lilley Chert |
Ranges in color from a white to yellow including mottled tan and creams. | Extreme southeastern Indiana | Bisher Dolomite formation | |||
Bowling Green Chert | Southeastern Missouri | Bowling Green Member of the Edgewood Limestone Formation | ||||
Brassfield Chert AKA: Clifton Chert / Agate, Belfast Chert |
Artifacts tend to range in color from light greenish to blue or light tans mottled with yellowish red to milky white | Southeastern Indiana | Brassfield Formation | |||
Broyle Chert | Vary in color from yellows to tan or blues. The cortex is white and chalky. Rarely may be translucent | Southeastern Indiana | Middle Devonian chert | |||
Bryantsville Chert AKA: Burton Chert |
Ranges in color from a light gray to a grayish brown color | Southern Indiana | Levias Member of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone formation | |||
Burlington Chert | Varies from white to gray or tan. Banding and mottling may be present. | Western Indiana | Burlington Formation | |||
Carter Cave Chert AKA for Paoli Chert |
Translucent and ranges in color from yellow to tan, red, and orange. Rarely green and blue are present | West central to southwestern Indiana | Paoli Limestone formation | |||
Cedarville - Guelph Chert AKA: Shawnee Chert |
Primarily a mottled white to light gray or light blue numerous fossils giving a speckled appearance with vugs or quartz present | Northeastern Indiana | Cedarville-Guelph formation | |||
Clear Creek Chert | Ranges from a slight yellowing gray to white | Central to southwestern Indiana | Overlies the Backbone Limestone formation | |||
Cobden- Dongola Chert AKA: Anna Chert, Hornstone, and St. Louis Ball Chert |
Shades of dark gray to blue-gray which may be solid or have dark gray bands | Extreme southwestern Indiana | St. Louis Limestone | |||
Coffee Creek Chert Jeffersonville Chert variation |
Semi-translucent and variegated ranging from a bright white to a light gray, very pale brown, slightly pinkish white in color with a milky or creamy appearance | Southeastern Indiana | Jeffersonville Limestone formation | |||
Columbus Chert | Ranges in color from a white to a light gray | Extreme northeastern Indiana | Columbus Limestone Formation | |||
Crab Orchard Banded
Chert AKA: Gray Banded, Jelly Roll, Kentucky Stromatoporoid chert |
Banded gray and white. It has broad alternating bands of light to dark whites and grays followed by darker grays to almost black | Southern Indiana | Crab Orchard member | |||
Crystal Quartz | clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Indiana | ||||
Degonia Chert | Ranges from white to gray and blue | Southwestern Indiana | Degonia formation | |||
Derby Chert |
Vary in color from a light medium gray to a medium dark gray. White or
dark gray banding may be present |
Southwestern Indiana | ||||
Ditney Chert | Southwestern Indiana | Shelburn formation topping the West Limestone member | ||||
Dover Chert Fort Payne variant AKA: Elco Chert |
Range from a light tan to almost a black chocolate brown with swirls, bands, or streaks of light to dark | Indiana | Fort Payne Formation | |||
Fall Creek Chert Jeffersonville Chert variant |
Ranges in color from shades of whites to grays varying from light to dark gray. | East central Indiana | Jeffersonville Limestone formation | |||
Ferdinand Chert |
Dark bluish gray fossiliferous chert |
Extreme southwestern Indiana | Mansdfield formation, Lead Creek member | |||
Flint Ridge Chert /Chalcedony AKA: Van Port Chert, Raccoon Creek Chert |
White to bluish hues with bands of light gray, reds, and yellows | Indiana | Van Port Member of the Allegheny Formation | |||
Fort Payne 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 | Extreme southern Indiana | Fort Payne formation | |||
Four Mile Creek
Chert AKA: Salamonie Chert |
Ranges from a pink to an off white, light gray, light blue, or light bluish gray color. Chalcedony inclusion may be present. | Extreme southeastern Indiana | Salamonie formation, Laurel member | |||
Grassy Knob Chert |
Ranges in color from a pale yellowish gray to a light olive brown |
Southwestern Indiana | Bailey Limestone formation | |||
Haney Chert | Color is white or light gray with specks of brown | Extreme southern Indiana | Haney Limestone formation | |||
Harrodsburg Chert | Ranges from commonly dark olive-brown to tan, although various shades of browns, tans, blues, and off-white, oolites form white speckles | Southern Indiana | Harrodsburg Limestone formation | |||
Holland Chert AKA: Upper Huntingburg Chert |
High quality light gay to dark bluish gray chert | Southern Indiana | Holland Limestone formation | |||
Indian Creek Chert AKA: Richland Chert |
Beige to buff or tan with browns occasionally being present. Variegated shades of dark grays or purplish grays may be present | West central Indiana | Ste. Genevieve Limestone formations | |||
Jeffersonville Chert |
Ranges from white to cream or light yellow to tan and medium brown darker brown bands appearing jagged and interspersed | West central Indiana | Jeffersonville Limestone formation | |||
Kaolin Chert | Ranges from hues of golden tans to gray and reds. Light banding may be present. | Extreme southwestern Indiana | Paleozoic Limestone formation | |||
Kenneth Chert | Varying shades of creamy white to light gray with mottle or speckled darker grays to almost black | Northern Indiana | Kenneth Limestone Member | |||
Laurel Chert AKA: Raisch-Smith Chert |
Mottled and ranges in color from a off white to a light tan or light gray. | Southeastern Indiana | Laurel formation | |||
Lead Creek Chert Type I AKA: Rockport Chert |
Opaque, mottled, varying shades of gray commonly having a marbles appearance with patches or streaks of an orange, tan, or gray | Southern Indiana | Lead Creek Limestone Formation | |||
Lead Creek Chert Type II AKA Plummer Chert |
Opaque, variegated with shades of medium to dark gray. Patches or streaks of orange, tan, or gray and white specks of fossils | Southern Indiana | Lead Creek Limestone Formation | |||
Lead Creek Chert Type III AKA: Lieber Chert |
Mottled and ranges in colors from a pale blue to a dark navy blue or black. | Southern Indiana | Lead Creek Limestone Formation | |||
Liston Creek Chert | Mottled and ranges from light grays, yellows, and tans coloration. | Northern Indiana | Liston Creek Limestone formation | |||
Lost River Chert AKA: Bowling Green Chert |
Ranges in color from a bluish gray to a light brownish gray | Southwestern Indiana | Ste. Genevieve Limestone | |||
Louisville Chert | Varies in color from a very light gray to a medium light gray. It is mottled and opaque and may have brownish specks | Extreme southern Indiana | Louisville Limestone formation | |||
Muldraugh Chert | Ranges in color from light to medium grays, pale brown to an light olive brown or dusty yellow. Variegated or mottling or vugs may be present.. | Eastern Indiana | Muldraugh Formation of the Sanders Group | |||
Nethers Chert Flint Ridge Chert variation AKA: Ribbon Chert |
Banded with colors ranging from light gray to black, pink to red, or tan to brown | Indiana | Van Port Member of the Allegheny Formation | |||
New Castle Chert AKA: New Chapel Chert |
Ranges from a more common duller variegated light gray to a pale brown or a less common homogeneous bluish gray | Extreme southern Indiana | Silver Creek limestone formation | |||
Onondaga Chert AKA: Buttermilk Falls, Black Rock, Clarence, Coniferous, Diver's Lake, Edgecliff, Moore House, Nedrow, Seneca, Fort Erie Chert |
Vary from light to dark gray to a mottled bluish gray to a dark brown or black or tan. | Northeastern Indiana | Onondaga Limestone Formation | |||
Orthoquartzite | Varies | Indiana | ||||
Paoli Chert AKA: Carter Cave Chert |
Translucent and ranges in color from yellow to tan, red, and orange. Rarely green and blue are present | Central to southwestern Indiana | Paoli Limestone formation | |||
Pipe Creek Chert AKA: Tenmile Creek, Perkins, Plum Brook, Brook Chert |
Ranges from gray to bluish gray or a pale brown, may be mottled or homogenous, light blue cloudy and quartz lined vugs may be present | Extreme northeastern Indiana | Tenmile Creek Formation | |||
Quartz |
Milky white with thin veins |
Indiana | ||||
Quartzite | Varies from white to gray, or pink and tan in color | Indiana | ||||
Ramp Creek Chert | Southern Indiana | Ramp Creek Limestone Member, Muldraugh Formation | ||||
Rhyolite | Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | Indiana | ||||
Shakopee Chert | Ranges from white to gray with contrasting banding | Northwestern Indiana | Shakopee Dolomite formation | |||
Sonora Flint AKA for Wyandotte Chert |
Vibrant colorful flint that may range from tans to light gray-blue and dark brown to purples | Southern Indiana | Ste. Genevieve Limestone formation | |||
St. Louis Green
Chert AKA: St. Louis Formation Chert |
Varying shades from light gray green to yellow green | Southwestern Indiana | St. Louis formation | |||
Stanford Chert | Ranges from shades of medium gray with lighter and darker shades occurring with white and gray speckles | Central Indiana | Ste. Genevieve Limestone formation | |||
Ste. Genevieve Chert | Ranges from light to medium blue, gray, and black, to olive gray and yellowish gray with gray concentric bands commonly present | Southern Indiana | Ste. Genevieve Limestone formation | |||
Sugar Creek Chert Attica variant |
Ranges in color bluish gray to olive gray variegated or a tan to a chocolate brown with white cloudy streaks with quartz inclusions | Central Indiana | Muldraugh Formation of the Borden Group | |||
Transverse Chert | Dark gray | Extreme northeastern Indiana | Transverse Limestone formation | |||
Vienna Chert | Ranges from a deep bluish black to a light grayish tan or pinkish | Southwestern Indiana | Vienna Formation | |||
West Franklin Chert | Ranges from a light gray to light bluish gray. Commonly mottled with blue and with light brown streaks and chalky vugs | Extreme southern Indiana | ||||
Wyandotte Chert AKA: Indiana Hornstone, Harrison County Chert |
Ranges in color from a medium bluefish gray to a medium light gray. Banding is common and is various shades of gray | Southern Indiana | Fredonia Member of the Ste. Genevieve Limestone formation | |||
Zaleski Chert Upper Mercer Chert variation AKA: Black Flint |
Glossy black and commonly has white streaks | Northeastern Indiana | Zaleski member of the Allegheny Formation |