North Carolina Licthic Materials

Materials Identification Guide

North Carolina Lithic Material

Name	Natural	Non-heat treated points	Heat treated points	Color details	Primary found in:	Associated Formation / Member
Aaron Slate AKA: Sandy Tuff				Ranges from a pure greenstone to a almost pure argillite	Northeastern North Carolina	Aaron Formation of the Virginia Carolina Slate Belt
Abbyville Gabbro				Dark greenish gray	Northeastern North Carolina	Abbyville Gabbro Formation
Amber Chalcedony AKA: Weathering Amber Chalcedony				When freshly fractured is a translucent amber with snowflake like inclusions, when weathered has a chalky white to yellow appearance	Northeastern North Carolina
Argillite (Generic type)				Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray.	North America	Varies
Bangor Chert				Translucent and banded, ranging in color from black to a dark bluish gray or greenish	Southwestern North Carolina	Bangor Limestone formation
Chepultepec Chert Knox Chert Variant (Ridge and Valley Chert)				Ranges from yellow to white and oolitic	Western North Carolina	Chapultepec Member of the Knox Formation
Chilhowee Mudstone				greenish-gray in color	Western North Carolina	Chilhowee Group
Cid Meta- Mudstone				Thinly laminated tuffaceous argillite mudstone ranging from a bluish gray to a greenish gray.	South central North Carolina	Cid Formation of the Albemarle Group
Conococheague Chert				Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, brownish gray, or black. Small blue to white inclusions may be present.	Northwestern North Carolina	Conococheague Limestone Formation
Copper Ridge Chert (Ridge and Valley Chert)				Ranges in color from medium to dark gray to black	Western North Carolina	Copper Ridge Member of the Knox formation
Crystal Quartz				clear colorless stone similar to clear glass	Eastern North America
Erwin Quartzite AKA: Erwin - Antietam Quartzite, Hesse Quartzite				Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red. A green brown variation is reported in Amherst County, Virginia	North Carolina	Erwin Formation of the Chilhowee Group
Floyd Church Meta-Argillite / MetaMudstone				Gray	Southwestern North Carolina	Floyd Church Formation of the Albemarle Group
Fort Payne Chert AKA: Iuka Chert, Lauderdale 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	North Carolina	Fort Payne Formation
Harpers Ferry Quartzite AKA: Oolitic Quartzite				Ranges from a light gray to light blue with round speckles colored dark gray to a bluish gray or cream to light gray	Northeastern North Carolina	Possible Harpers Formation of the Chilhowee Group
Honaker Chert / Dolomite AKA: Nolichucky Chert				Dolomite is a light to medium gray with banding present, minor chert nodules of dark gray to black with algal banding	Northwestern North Carolina	Honaker Formation / Nolichucky Formation
Kingsport Chert				Ranges from white to a medium to dark gray.	Western North Carolina	Kingsport Formation of the Beekmantown Group
Knox Chert				Dark blue to bluish gray with translucent mottling. Red Knox Chert has a reddish color with slight mottling.	Western North Carolina	Knox Formation
Lenoir Chert				Dark Gray	Western North Carolina	Lenoir Limestone Formation
Little Cattail Creek Chert / Chalcedony AKA: Williamson Chert, Dinwiddie Chert				The most common colors range from a light tan to brown and gray to blue with a mottled creamy gray-blue being the most common.	Northeastern North Carolina
Longview Chert Knox variation				Primarily reddish, but white to gray colors do occur	Western North Carolina	Longview Member of the Knox formation
Macot Dolomite / Chert				Ranges from white to a light to medium gray with with mottling or streaking ranging from pink to red or green	Western North Carolina	Mascot Dolomite Formation of the Newala Group
Mitchell Chert				Ranges from white to dark brown with the most common colors being from a light cream to yellow, light gray to blue, and pink to violet.	Northeastern North Carolina
Morrow Mountain Rhyolite AKA: Uwharrie Rhyolite				Homogeneous dark gray to black and many shades of green, flow banding may be present.	Central North Carolina
Mount Rodgers Rhyolite				Ranges in color from a dark white to gray and light pink to purple with banding being present	Northwestern North Carolina	Mount Rodgers Formation
Nottoway River Quartzite				Two variations, one is a light blue and the other is a root beer brown.	Northeastern North Carolina
Orthoquartzite (Generic type)				Varies	North America	Varies
Patuxent - Mattaponi Quartzite AKA: Mattaponi Quartzite				Ranges from gray to a white, light yellow, pink or red. range sin color from a dark white to gray, cream to yellow, and pink to red.	Northwestern North Carolina	Patuxent / Mattaponi Formation
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	Eastern North America
Shady Chert				Ranges from a bluish gray to a yellowish gray blue, or white with mottling commonly present.	Western North Carolina	Shady Dolomite Formation
Tusquitee Quartzite				Ranges from a white to a light yellowish gray.	Southwestern North Carolina	Tusquitee Quartzite Member of the Nantahala Formation
Unakite				Mottled green and pink	Tennessee , North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey
Wolf Den Mountain Rhyolite				Ranges from a medium to dark gray with white speckles.	Central North Carolina