New Jersey Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Allentown Chert | Ranges from a medium to dark gray with white streamers with banding commonly present. Oolitic and stromatolitic. | Northwestern New Jersey | Allentown Formation | |||
Allentown Quartzite | Ranges from a very light gray to a medium light gray. | Northwestern New Jersey | Allentown Formation | |||
Alsen Chert | Mottled dark gray to a dark brownish gray. | New Jersey | Alsen Cherty Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Group | |||
Antietam Quartzite AKA: Erwin-Antietam Quartzite |
Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red, a greenish brown variation is reported | Southern New Jersey | Antietam Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |||
Aquia Orthoquartzite |
Ranges from white to tan, light gray, or brown. Finer grain can range from tan to brown, gray, yellow, or red. |
Southern New Jersey | Aquia Quartzite Formation | |||
Argillite (Generic type) |
Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | North America | Varies | |||
Beacon Hill Gravel Chert / Quartzite | Nodules of chert and yellow quartzite. | Central New Jersey | Beacon Hill Formation | |||
Beaver Run Chert |
Dolomite is a sparkly black which emits a
fetid odor when struck with black and knotted chert occur. |
Northern New Jersey | Beaver Run Dolomite Member of the Ontelaunee Formation | |||
Becraft Chert | Light bluish gray to medium gray or black | New Jersey | Becraft Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Group | |||
Beekmantown Chert AKA: Narrows Chert |
Dark gray often fossiliferous. | New Jersey | Beekmantown Geological Group | |||
Branchville Chert | Medium to dark gray weathering a reddish brown to buff. | Northern New Jersey | Branchville Member of the Epler Formation, Beekmantown Group | |||
Briarcliff Chert | Light with darker patches. | Northern New Jersey | Briarcliff Dolomite Formation of the Wappinger Group | |||
Brandywine Blue Gneiss AKA: Wilmington Blue Rock |
Ranges from a bright blue to a bluish gray. | Southern New Jersey | Brandywine Blue Gneiss Formation of the Wilmington Complex | |||
Broad Run Chalcedony AKA: Wissahickon Schist |
Ranges in color from a mottled white to light gray or cream to yellow. Black specks are present through the material. | Southern New Jersey | Wissahickon Formation | |||
Brunswick Mudstone / Siltstone |
Primarily a dark red, but colors of purple, green, yellow, gray, and black also occur. | Central New Jersey | Passaic Formation (formerly Brunswick Formation) of the Newark Group | |||
Buttermilk Falls Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Northern New Jersey | Buttermilk Falls Member of the Onondaga Limestone Formation | ||
Califon Chert | Ranges in color from black to gray or bluish gray or orange to brown and typically stained green from limonite. | Northern New Jersey | Califon Member of the Leithsville Formation | |||
Cecil Black Chert AKA: Newark Chert |
Ranges from a medium gray to black | Southern New Jersey | Newark Gabbro Formation | |||
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. | New Jersey | Coeymans Limestone Formation (New Creek Formation), Helderberg Group | |||
Cohansey Orthoquartzite | Base color of grayish white with mottled colors including yellow to brown, orange to red, or black | Southern New Jersey | Cohansey Formation | |||
Crystal Quartz | clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Eastern North America | ||||
Cuesta Quartzite | Ranges in color from pale grayish brown, pink, or reddish. | Southern New Jersey | ||||
Epler Chert / Dolomite | Ranges from a medium to dark gray. | Northern New Jersey | Epler Formation of the Beekmantown Group | |||
Esopus Chert / Silicified Shale AKA: Cherry Valley Chert, Bowmanstown Chert |
Ranges from a dark gray or brown to a brownish black or black. | Northern New Jersey | Esopus Member of the Onondaga Limestone Formation. | |||
Gettysburg Siltstone AKA: Hammer Creek Siltstone |
Ranges from a reddish brown to maroon | Northern New Jersey | Gettysburg Formation (Hammer Creek Formation) of the Newark Group | |||
Glenerie Chert AKA: Port Jervis Chert |
Ranges from a bluish gray to black weathering brown. | Northern New Jersey | Glenerie Formation of the Onondaga Group | |||
Hamburg Chert | Ranges in color from blue to black with white quartz veins running through the material. | Northern New Jersey | Hamburg Member of the Leithsville Formation | |||
Hardyston Chalcedony | Semi translucent milky white to light blue or light to gray. | New Jersey | Hardyston Formation | |||
Hardyston Jasper AKA: Berks Jasper, Lehigh Jasper, Pennsylvania Jasper, Reading Prong Jasper |
Ranges from a dark golden yellow to a bright red or dark brown with mottling as well as tiny veins of clear to white translucent chalcedony. | New Jersey | Hardyston Formation | |||
Hardyston Quartzite | Ranges from a milky white to light blue to a light yellowish brown or gray. | New Jersey | Hardyston Formation | |||
Harmonyvale Chert | Ranges from a gray to a greenish gray | Northern New Jersey | Harmonyvale Member of the Ontelaunee Formation | |||
Helderberg Chert | Ranges from mottled white to light cream, light gray, and light blue commonly mottled and fossiliferous. | New Jersey |
Helderberg Group | |||
Hook Mountain Basalt AKA: Watchung Basalt |
Ranges from a light to dark greenish gray amygdaloidal basalt. | Northern New Jersey | Hook Mountain Basalt Formation of the Brunswick Group | |||
Kalkberg Chert | Ranges in color from a grayish blue to a black. This chert is heavily cloudy by opaque patches. Clastic quartz is present | New Jersey | Kalkberg Formation of the Helderberg Group | |||
Kittatiny Chert | Ranges from a mottled light grayish brown to a dark grayish black with veinlets of light gray chalcedony. | Northern New Jersey | Kittatiny Formation | |||
Kittery Quartzite AKA: Cape Elizabeth Quartzite |
Ranges from a light brown to light gray. | Northeastern New Jersey | Kittery Formation of the Merrimack Group | |||
Lafayette Chert | Ranges from a dark gray to black weathering an orangish gray | Northern New Jersey | Lafayette Member of the Epler Formation, Beekmantown Group | |||
Leithville Chert | Ranges in color from black to gray or bluish gray or orange to brown. white quartz veins or staining of green limonite may be present. | Northern New Jersey | Leithville Formation | |||
Limeport Chert | Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray or black, banding may be present. | Southwestern New Jersey | Limeport Member of the Allentown Formation | |||
Lockatong Argillite | Primarily a light to dark gray, greenish gray, or black, but a greenish red, grayish purple, or reddish brown may also occur | New Jersey | Lockatong Formation, Newark Group | |||
New Scotland Chert AKA: Corriganville Chert, Minisink Chert |
Ranges from a white to very light colors. | New Jersey | New Scotland Formation (Corriganville Formation) of the Helderberg Group | |||
Normanskill Chert AKA: Deepkill Chert, Coxsackie Chert |
Range from a light green to a dark green or brownish green with darker bands being present. | Northern New Jersey | Mount Merino and Indian River Formations of the Normanskill Group | |||
Onondaga Chert AKA: See page |
Vary from light to dark gray to a mottled bluish gray to a dark brown or black or tan. | New Jersey | Onondaga Limestone Formation | |||
Ontelaunee Chert / Dolomite |
Ranges from a dark gray to black. White chert also occurs. |
Northern New Jersey | Ontelaunee Formation of the Beekmantown Group | |||
Oriskany Solicified Sandstone | White | Western New Jersey | Oriskany Sandstone Formation | |||
Orthoquartzite (Generic type) |
Varies | North America | Varies | |||
Port Ewen Chert | Ranges in color from a dark gray to black | New Jersey | Port Ewen Formation of the Helderberg Group | |||
Potsdam Quartzite Quartzitic sandsandstone |
Ranges from a tan or cream to pink and rarely is almost black | Northern New Jersey | Potsdam Sandstone Formation of the Saratoga Springs Group | |||
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 | North America | ||||
Rickenbach Chert AKA: Crooked Swamp Chert |
Dark gray | Northern New Jersey | Rickenbach Dolomite Formation of the Beekmantown Group | |||
Schoharie Chert AKA: Aquetuck Chert |
Homogenous yellowish brown to a very dark gray. | Northern New Jersey | Schoharie Member of the Onondaga Limestone Formation | |||
Sterling Hill Sussexite | Ranges from pink to a pinkish violet or red with yellow or violet occurring with reduced frequency. | Northern New Jersey | ||||
Stirling Carnelian | Translucent and varies in shades from reddish brown to reddish orange. | Northern New Jersey | Watchung Series basalt formations | |||
Unakite | Mottled green and pink | Tennessee , North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey | ||||
Wallkill Chert | Ranges in color from black to bluish gray or light gray | Northern New Jersey | Wallkill Member of the Leithsville Formation | |||
Wissahickon Quartzite / Vein Quartz | gray quartzite with milky white veins of quartz. | Southern New Jersey | Wissahickon Formation |