Wyoming Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Absaroka Chert | Primarily green in color | Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Agate Jasper | Ranges from yellow to brown or green. Part if the material will be banded and be translucent while the remaining material will be mottled and opaque. | Wyoming | ||||
Algal Chert Tiger Chert variation |
Streaked ranging from most commonly a light gray to light brown, less commonly a very light gray to black or a very light brown to a very dark brown | South central Wyoming | Bridger Formation | |||
Almond Orthoquartzite | Purple | South central Wyoming | Almond Formation of the Mesa Verde Group | |||
Amsden Chert | Ranges from most commonly gray or blue, but tan is also present. | North central Wyoming | Amsden Formation | |||
Angel Agate | Pale greenish gray color with a chalky white cortex | Central Wyoming | Split Rock Formation | |||
Aspen Porcellanite | Ranges in color from white to pink. | West central Wyoming | Aspen Formation | |||
Bacon Ridge Porcellanite | Pearly gray | Southwestern Wyoming | Bacon Ridge Formation | |||
Badlands Chert | Ranges from a yellowish brown to a pale reddish purple or dark yellowish orange | Northeastern Wyoming | ||||
Badlands Moss Agate | Translucent medium yellowish brown to dark yellowish orange with dendritic inclusions. | Northeastern Wyoming | ||||
Basalt | Ranges from black to gray | Wyoming | Volcanic | |||
Baxter Porcellanite | Ranges from a tan to a dark brown. | Southwestern Wyoming | Baxter Formation | |||
Bear Canyon Agate | Banded ranging from black and white to a dark gray and light gray. | North central Wyoming | ||||
Belvoir Ranch Chert | Ranges in color a dark brown to a purplish or reddish brown color. Purplish veins and white circular inclusions are present. | Southeastern Wyoming | ||||
Big Horn Chert AKA for Phosphoria Chert |
Ranges from colors of red, maroon, purple, orangish red, green, black and white. | Central, northern, and western Wyoming | Phosphoria Formation | |||
Big Horn Plume Agate | Clear white or light blue matrix with black or metallic plumes | North central Wyoming | ||||
Big Sandy Petrified Wood AKA: Petrified Palm Wood |
Ranges from tans to dark browns. Wood grain and white inclusions are present. The cortex is commonly white. | Southwestern Wyoming | Green River Formation | |||
Black Buttes Jasp-Agate | Ranges from a reddish brown to a dark gray with white quartz veins, quartz filled vugs and inclusions of yellow to orange, dark brown, purple. | West central Wyoming | ||||
Black Hills Quartzite | Ranges from a tan to brown or purple to maroon or gray. | Northeastern Wyoming | Fall River Formation | |||
Blue Forest Petrified Wood | Opalitic blue with grain and rings present. | Southwestern Wyoming | Laney Member of the Green River Formation | |||
Browns Park Chert | Similar to chalcedony with a opaque base of white and translucent hues ranging from light yellow, light to dark gray or light brown. | Colorado, Wyoming | Browns Park Formation | |||
Cedar Mountain Agate / Jasp-Agate | Multi-colored agate / moss / flame / plume agate with dendritic inclusion and jasp-agate is red and yellow with white and blue streaks. | Northwestern Wyoming | Bishop Conglomerate Formation | |||
Chadron Chert | Mottled and ranges from tan or yellowish brown to red or gray. Vugs filled with chalcedony or drusy quartz may be present. | Southeastern Wyoming | Chadron Formation | |||
Cloverly Quartzite | Ranges from a light gray to gray and a grayish red to a purple. | Wyoming | Cloverly Formation | |||
Cougar Creek Obsidian |
Black with many white "snowflake" inclusions |
Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Crazy Horse Petrified Wood | Ranges in color from black to tan or blue with a wood grain appearance The cortex is white. | Southwestern Wyoming | ||||
Crazy Woman Creek Petrified Wood | Colors of white, tan, brown, and black, a wood grain appearance is present. | Central Wyoming | ||||
Crescent Hill Chert | Primarily homogenous and ranges in color from purple to red or orange, black and green. Inclusions are commonly present. | Northwestern Wyoming | Crescent Hills Basalt Formation, Absaroka Supervolcanic Group | |||
Cumberland Flats Petrified Wood | Southwestern Wyoming | |||||
Deadwood Quartzite |
Type 1 course grain quartzite ranging
from dark red to orange Type 2 fine grain quartzite ranging from a yellowish gray to brown |
Northeastern Wyoming | Deadwood Formation | |||
Deep Lake Metaquartzite | Ranges from a grayish white to a dark gray or brownish gray. | South central Wyoming | Early Algonkian | |||
Delaney Rim Agate | Mottled ranging from white, black, and tan to brownish black and brown. | Southwestern Wyoming | ||||
Dollar Mountain Chert / Chalcedony | Mottled ranging from caramel / yellow / brown to red / pink / maroon or light and dark gray. | Central Wyoming | Bighorn Formation | |||
Dry Head Agate AKA: Big Horn Agate |
Banded and ranges in color from red, pink, yellow, orange, white and brown with swirls and "eyes" present. | North central Wyoming | Phosphoria Formation | |||
Dry Lakes Agate | Central Wyoming | Split Rock Formation | ||||
DuBois Moss Agate | Ranges from green to gray with brown or black dendritic inclusions. | West central Wyoming | ||||
Eastern Petrified Wood AKA: Lake Butte Petrified Wood |
Ranges from reds to yellows with inclusions of milky white. wood grain" and rings are present in the material. The outer cortex ranges from chalky whites to pale yellows. | Northwestern Wyoming | Langford Formation | |||
Eden Valley Petrified Wood | Various colors of agate often including full limbs, knots, cracks, braches, burrows and grain. The outer coating if coated with algae. | Southwestern Wyoming | Green River Formation | |||
Elimia Agate AKA: Turritella Agate |
Black to brownish gray or brownish black matrix with light gray snail shells. | Southwestern Wyoming | Green River Formation | |||
Elk Creek Basalt | Ranges from a dark gray to black | Northwestern Wyoming | Elk Creek Basalt Member, Washburn Group, Absaroka Supervolcanic | |||
Emmons Peak Quartzite AKA: Uinta Quartzite |
Ranges from an off white to a red. | Southwestern Wyoming | Emmons Formation | |||
Fairburn Agate AKA: Tee Pee Canyon Agate, Guernsey Lake Agate |
Alternating circular bands of fibrous chalcedony alternating between yellowish brown with a narrower whitish band | East central Wyoming | Chadron Formation, White River Group | |||
Flathead Quartzite AKA: Alpreston Quartzite |
Ranges light reddish to an orangish red. | Northwestern Wyoming | Flathead Quartzite Formation | |||
Flattop Butte
Chalcedony AKA: Flattop Mesa Chalcedony |
Ranges from opaque white to translucent lavender with specks of blue and pink. | Southeastern Wyoming | Chadron capstone | |||
Fort Union Porcellanite AKA: Powder River Chert |
Ranges from most commonly a light gray to a light purple or red. | Northeastern Wyoming | Fort Union Formation | |||
Fourmile Gulch Petrified Wood | Southwestern Wyoming | Bridger Formation | ||||
Gallatin
Petrified Forest Wood AKA: Specimen Ridge, Bighorn Peak Petrified Wood |
Ranges from reds to yellows with inclusions of milky white. "Wood grain" and rings are present in the material. | Northwestern Wyoming | Sepulcher Formation | |||
Goose Egg Chert | Ranges from a gray to a dark gray or reddish gray color | Central Wyoming | Goose Egg Formation | |||
Harabell Porcellanite | Light green tuffaceous porcellanite | Northwestern Wyoming | Harebell Formation | |||
Hartville Chert AKA:Hartville Uplift Chert, Hartville Uplift Jasper |
Ranges from most commonly colors and hues of yellow, orange, red, brown, and purple with black mottling and dendrites common | Southeastern Wyoming | Hartville Formation | |||
Hartville Quartzite AKA: Hartville Uplift Quartzite |
Ranges from white to a light to medium gray, tan or red, white streaking may be present. | Southeastern Wyoming | Hartville Formation | |||
Hilliard Porcellanite | Platy and opaque ranging from a tan to dark brown in color. | Southwestern Wyoming | Hilliard Formation | |||
Hogback Chalcedony | Ranges from light gray to brown with small lighter colored circles. Mottling may be present | Northeastern Wyoming | ||||
Hogback Quartzite | Ranges from light tan to dark brown. | Northeastern Wyoming | ||||
Irish Rock Chert | Ranges from a light grayish green to a dark blackish green, but may range to hues of caramel or red. | Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Jack Creek Quartzite | White | Wyoming | Jack Creek Formation | |||
Jack Morrow Hills Petrified Wood | Southwestern Wyoming | |||||
Kingsbury Chert | Dark colored chert | Northeastern Wyoming | Kingsbury Member of the Wasatch Formation | |||
Laketown Chert | Light gray | Southwestern Wyoming | Laketown Dolomite Member of the Guilmette Formation | |||
Lamar Valley
Petrified Wood AKA: Amethyst, Mountian, Specimen, Fossil Forest |
Ranges from reds to yellows with milky white wood grain, rings are present, outer cortex ranges from chalky whites to pale yellows. | Northwestern Wyoming | Lamar Formation | |||
Lost Canyon Moss Agate | Red moss agate | East central Wyoming | ||||
Lysite Agate AKA: Lysaght Agate |
Banded and plume agate with fortification lines ranging from reds to browns and white to clear or blue. | Central Wyoming | Lysite Member of the White River Formation | |||
Madison Chert AKA: Montana Chert |
White to a grayish white with black dendritic inclusions. | Northwestern Wyoming | Madison Limestone Formation | |||
Medicine Bow Plume Agate | Translucent milky white chalcedony with dark inclusions forming plumes. | South central Wyoming | ||||
Medicine Peak Quartzite | Ranges from a violet gray to a steel gray. | South central Wyoming | Medicine Peak Formation | |||
Minnekahta Chert | Medium brown with a red mesh of hematite and limonite and round quartz inclusions. | East central Wyoming | Minnekahta Limestone Formation | |||
Morrison - Cloverly Porcellanite AKA: Morrison - Clovery Chert |
Variegated with colors ranging from gray to blue or red and yellow. Commonly mottled and streaked by fossilized roots and burrows. | Central to eastern Wyoming | Morrison and Cloverly formations | |||
Morrison - Cloverly Quartzite AKA: Morrison - Cloverly Orthoquartzite |
Ranges from a tan to brown or purple to maroon or gray. | Central to eastern Wyoming | Morrison and Cloverly formation | |||
Muddy Mountain Chert | Brecciated with colors ranging from most commonly a reddish brown, but black, blue and white layers do occur. | West central Wyoming | Muddy Mountain Chert Member of the Madison Formation | |||
Northeastern Petrified
Wood AKA: Bison Peak, Barronette Peak, Mount Hornaday Petrified Wood |
Ranges from reds to yellows with inclusions of milky white. "wood grain" and rings with a cortex ranges chalky whites to pale yellows. | Northwestern Wyoming | Lamar Formation | |||
Obsidian AKA: Volcanic Glass |
Black to black with bands of dark reds (mahogany obsidian) or white flakes (snowflake obsidian) | Wyoming | Volcanic | |||
Obsidian Cliff Obsidian | Most commonly black, but can range from black to brown, mahogany, gray or green. | Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Opeche Chert AKA: Opeche Siltstone |
Reddish color | East central Wyoming | Opeche Formation | |||
Park Point Obsidian | Most commonly mahogany (black with brownish red), but black occurs less often. | Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Parker Peak Ignimbriote | Black with white crystalline inclusions | Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Pawnee Grassland Quartzite | Ranges in color from a pinkish to a yellowish tan. | Southeastern Wyoming | Pawnee Creek Bed Formation | |||
Petrified Wood AKA: Agatized Wood, Opalized Wood |
Vary in color based on the minerals present during the process | Wyoming | Varies | |||
Phosphoria Chert AKA: Tosi Chert, Big Horn Chert |
Ranges from colors of red, maroon, purple, orangish red, green, black and white. | Central to western Wyoming | Tosi Member of the Phosphoria Formation | |||
Platte County Chert | Mottled and ranges from a light purple to a reddish purple. Vugs filled with course darker purple quartz are commonly present. | Southeastern Wyoming | ||||
Porcellanite Generic type |
Ranges from white to brown or various shades of gray | Wyoming | Varies | |||
Powder River Porcellanite | Northeastern Wyoming | Powder River Formation | ||||
Prairie Agate | Concentric banding and is a marbled mixture of chalcedony and different colors of jasper | East central Wyoming | Chadron Formation | |||
Quadrant Quartzite | Ranges from white to a pale yellow or pale pink color. | Northwestern Wyoming | Quadrant Formation | |||
Quaking Asp Mountain Jasperoid | Light to dark gray agate with banding red, yellowish orange and gray jasp-agate and veins of quartz.. | Southwestern Wyoming | ||||
Red Creek Quartzite Uinta Quartzite variant |
Very crystalline white quartzite. | Southwestern Wyoming | ||||
Red Desert Black Palm Wood | Black | South central Wyoming | ||||
Red Desert Agate / Jasper | Primarily shades of red with shades of white, yellow, yellowish brown, and gray. | South central Wyoming | ||||
Rex Chert | Ranges from a brownish red to purple or an ashy gray to black | Southwestern Wyoming |
Rex Chert Member, Phosphoria Limestone Formation |
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Rhyolite | Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | North America | Volcanic Activity | |||
Schmitt Chert | Northwestern Wyoming | Mission Canyon Limestone and Lodgepole Limestone formations of the Madison Group | ||||
Seminole Mountain Jasp-Agate | Contains alternating layers of brown jasper and grunerite, dark gray quartz, and magnetized black magnetite | South central Wyoming | ||||
Sevenmile Ridge Chert Tiger Chert variation |
Most commonly very dark brown to black, but may range to a medium brown with a light brown mottling. | Southeastern Wyoming | Bridger Formation | |||
Sheep Canyon Dendritic Jasper | Ranges from a yellowish brown with black speckles to a light grayish brown with red speckles | Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Shirley Basin Petrified Wood / Jasp-Agate | Wood has colors of white to brown to black. The jasp-agate is a pink breccia matrix cemented with a reddish brown or gray to black. | Central Wyoming | Windy River Formation | |||
Silicified Dinosaur Bone | Wyoming | |||||
Six Mile Hill Petrified Wood | South central Wyoming | |||||
Slater Agate / Chalcedony | White outer coating, interior dark gray to black agate surrounding a milky white center with small black inclusions. | Southeastern Wyoming | Guernsey Formation of the Hartville Uplift | |||
Spanish Diggings Agate | Mottled and banded red gray and red. | East central Wyoming | Fall River and Lamoka Formation of the Inyan Kara Group | |||
Spanish Diggings Chert | Mottled and ranges from a brown to gray. | East central Wyoming | Fall River and Lamoka Formation of the Inyan Kara Group | |||
Spanish Diggings Dendritic Jasper | Greenish yellow color with dark dendritic inclusions. | East central Wyoming | Fall River and Lamoka Formation of the Inyan Kara Group | |||
Spanish
Diggings Quartzite AKA: Fall River Quartzite and Lamoka Quartzite |
Range from a medium to very light shades of brown, gray, and purple or purplish gray, may be homogenous to variegated or banded | East central Wyoming | Fall River and Lamoka Formation of the Inyan Kara Group | |||
Spanish Diggings Red Breccia | Brecciated with shade of red. | East central Wyoming | Fall River and Lamoka Formation of the Inyan Kara Group | |||
Spanish Point Agate | Ranges from white to a light tannish white or grayish white with dark dendritic starburst and inclusions. | North central Wyoming | White River Formation | |||
Spearfish Chert | Ranges from a grayish red to purple | East central Wyoming | Spearfish Limestone Formation | |||
Stefoinite Brecciated Jasper | Brecciated with shades of tan, brown, and white. | Southwestern Wyoming | ||||
Sweetwater Moss Agate | Brown cortex with a light gray to blue matrix and black dendritic inclusions. | South central Wyoming | Split Rock Formation | |||
Tensleep Quartzite | Most commonly a light tan to tan, but grays, greens, reds and pinks do occur. | West central Wyoming | Tensleep Sandstone Formation | |||
Teton Chert | White | Northwestern Wyoming | Teton Formation | |||
Teton Pass Obsidian AKA: Crescent H Obsidian |
Ranges from black to gray and is banded. | Northwestern Wyoming | ||||
Tiger Chert AKA: Bridger Basin, Green River, Oil Chert, Zebra Chert, Shavetail Chert |
Primarily dark brown with wide tan banding. If the material is smaller, the tan could be primary with the darker brown bands. | Southwestern Wyoming | Bridger Formation | |||
Tin Cup Jasper | Jasper breccia or banded with angular fragments of ranges from deep red to a dark brown, butterscotch yellowish brown | West central Wyoming | ||||
Tongue River
Silicified Sediment AKA: Tongue River Silica |
Grayish brown sediment, pseudoquartzite, or arenaceous chert | Northeastern Wyoming | Slope / Bullion Creek formation | |||
Tower Region Petrified Wood AKA: Yancy's Forest, Roosevelt Lodge Petrified Wood |
Ranges from reds to yellows with inclusions of milky white. "Wood grain" and rings are present in the material. | Northwest Wyoming | Lamar Formation | |||
Trapper Creek Agate | Colors of brown to to cream with dendritic inclusions. | Wyoming | Madison Limestone Formation | |||
Tuff AKA: Solidified Volcanic Ash |
Contains greater than 75 volcanic ash and ranges from white to tan, gray or pink. | North America | Volcanic activity | |||
Turritella Agate AKA for Elimia Agate |
Black to brownish gray or brownish black matrix with light gray snail shells. | Southwestern Wyoming | Green River Formation | |||
Twin Creek Agate | Irregular banded with red and golden yellow flame jasper. | Southwestern Wyoming | Amsden or Phosphoria Formations | |||
Upper Lamar Petrified
Wood AKA: Miller Creek, Cache Creek, Cache Mountain, Abiathar Peak, The Thunderer |
Ranges from reds to yellows with inclusions of milky white. "Wood grain" and rings are present in the material. The outer cortex ranges from chalky whites to pale yellows. | Northwestern Wyoming | Lamar Formation | |||
Wamsutter Oolitic Chert AKA: Green River Oolitic Chert |
Ranges from an off white to a medium brown with white oolitic specks throughout the material | North central Wyoming | Green River Formation | |||
Whiskey Basin Petrified Wood | West central Wyoming | Bridger Formation | ||||
Whiskey Butte Chert | Algal chert ranging from black to dark brown or tan with light blue opal inclusions. | West central Wyoming | Laney Member of the Green River Formation | |||
White River Group
Silicate Generic type |
Ranges from light to medium gray, to a light brown, pink, blue or lavender with inclusions, splotches, mottling. | Eastern Wyoming | White River Group | |||
Whitewood Chert AKA: Deadwood Chert |
Colors of light gray, pinks and reds, and tan. | Northeastern Wyoming | Whitewood Limestone (dolomite) Formation | |||
Wiggins Fork
Petrified Wood AKA: DeBois Petrified Wood |
Colors of red, brown, gray white and green. Banding and wood grain is present. | West central Wyoming | Wiggins Formation | |||
Yellow Tree Jasper | Ranges from a yellow to a light brown or light orange with black "tree like" dendritic inclusions. | Central Wyoming | ||||
Youngsite Agate AKA: Hartsville Uplift Agate |
Ranges in color from a yellowish tan to a rosy pink or a grayish
silver. Gray undertones may be present. |
East central Wyoming | Guernsey Limestone Formation |