Maryland Lithic Material
Name | Natural | Non-heat treated points | Heat treated points | Color details | Primary found in: | Associated Formation / Member |
Accomack Mudstone |
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Ranges in color from a light or medium brown to a yellowish mustard brown. | Virginia, Maryland, Delaware | Yorktown and Omar formation estuarine deposits | |
Allentown Chert |
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Ranges from a medium to dark gray with white streamers with banding commonly present. Oolitic and stromatolitic. | West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Connecticut | Allentown Formation |
Allentown Quartzite |
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Ranges from a very light gray to a medium light gray. | West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, Connecticut | Allentown Formation | |
Antietam Quartzite AKA: Erwin-Antietam Quartzite |
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Ranges from bright white to light gray, tan, brown, pink, or red, a greenish brown variation is reported | West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, | Antietam Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |
Aquia Orthoquartzite |
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Ranges from white to tan, light gray, or brown. Finer grain can range from tan to brown, gray, yellow, or red. |
Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware | Aquia Quartzite Formation | |
Argillite (Generic type) |
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Light to dark green, but may range to various shades of gray. | North America | Varies | |
Beacon Hill Gravel Chert / Quartzite |
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Nodules of chert and yellow quartzite. | Maryland, New Jersey | Beacon Hill Formation |
Beasley Bay Jasper |
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Ranges from a mustard yellow to a brownish yellow or red. | Virginia, Maryland, Delaware | Kent Island Formation | |
Becraft Chert |
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Light bluish gray to medium gray or black | New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia | Becraft Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Beekmantown Chert AKA: Narrows Chert |
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Dark gray often fossiliferous. | West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Beekmantown Formation |
Bellefonte Chert |
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Ranges from a light to medium gray | Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia | Bellefonte Dolomite Formation of the Beekmantown Group. |
Brandywine Blue Gneiss AKA: Wilmington Blue Rock |
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Ranges from a bright blue to a bluish gray. | Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland | Brandywine Blue Gneiss Formation of the Wilmington Complex | |
Broad Run Chalcedony AKA: Wissahickon Chalcedony |
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Ranges in color from a mottled white to light gray or cream to yellow. Black specks are present through the material. | Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Wissahickon Formation | |
Calvert Silicified Sandstone |
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Ranges from a light gray to a bluish gray or dark gray | Virginia, Maryland, Delaware | Calvert Formation, Chesapeake Group | |
Catoctin Greenstone AKA: Catoctin Metabasalt |
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Ranges from a green to a greenish gray or gray. | Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware | Catoctin Formation | |
Catoctin Metarhyolite AKA: Highland Metarhyolite |
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Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray, blue, or purple. Banding, mottling, or breccia with a tannish color may be present. | West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Catoctin Formation | |
Cecil Black Chert AKA: Newark Chert |
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Ranges from a medium gray to black | Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Newark Gabbro Formation |
Chepultepec Chert
Knox Chert Variant (Ridge and Valley Chert) |
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Ranges from yellow to white and oolitic | Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania | Chapultepec Member of the Knox Formation |
Chickies Quartzite AKA: Chiques Quartzite, Hellam Quartzite, Edge Hill Quartzite |
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Ranges from white to gray or tinted pink, tan, green, or blue | Pennsylvania, Maryland | Chickies Formation | |
Coeymans Chert AKA: New Creek Chert |
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ranges in color from a bluish black to black. Cloudy patches of fine pyrite and quartz may be present. | New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia | Coeymans Limestone Formation (New Creek Formation), Helderberg Group |
Cohansey Orthoquartzite |
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Base color of grayish white with mottled colors including yellow to brown, orange to red, or black | Maryland, New Jersey | Cohansey Formation | |
Columbia Formation Quartzite |
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Ranges from a yellowish brown to a reddish brown. | Delaware, Maryland | Columbia Formation | |
Copper Ridge Chert (Ridge and Valley Chert) |
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Ranges in color from medium to dark gray to black | Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania | Copper Ridge Member of the Knox formation |
Crystal Quartz |
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clear colorless stone similar to clear glass | Eastern North America | ||
Culpepper Hornfels |
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Range from a brown to reddish brown or greenish brown and gray to black. | Virginia, Maryland | ||
Flint Run Jasper |
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Mottled mustard yellow to brown, but gray, red, blue, and green also occur as streaking or inclusions and quartz inclusions. | West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland | Between the Beekmantown Formation and the Blue Ridge Formation | |
Hardyston Chalcedony |
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Semi translucent milky white to light blue or light to gray. | Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey | Hardyston Formation | |
Hardyston Jasper AKA: Berks Jasper, Lehigh Jasper, Pennsylvania Jasper |
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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. | Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Hardyston Formation | |
Hardyston Quartzite |
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Ranges from a milky white to light blue to a light yellowish brown or gray. | Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Hardyston Formation | |
Harpers Ferry Quartzite AKA: Oolitic Quartzite |
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Ranges from a light gray to light blue with round speckles colored dark gray to a bluish gray or cream to light gray | Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland | Possible Harpers Formation of the Chilhowee Group | |
Heath Farm Jasper AKA: Delmarva Peninsula Jasper |
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Ranges from a brownish to dark brownish black. | Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania | ||
Helderberg Chert |
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Ranges from mottled white to light cream, light gray, and light blue commonly mottled and fossiliferous. | New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia | Helderberg Group |
New Scotland Chert |
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Ranges from a white to very light colors | New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia | New Scotland Limestone Formation of the Helderberg Formation Group |
Iron Hill Jasper AKA: Newark Jasper |
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Ranges from a mottled mustard yellow to brown, dark brown, brownish black, and red. | Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Newark Gabbo Formation | |
Kanawha Black Chert |
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Vary from a black to a bluish black /gray to a dark gray | West Virginia and into Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Kentucky | Kanawha Formation, Pottsville Group |
Knox Chert |
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Dark blue to bluish gray with translucent mottling. Red Knox Chert has a reddish color with slight mottling. | Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania | Knox Formation | |
Libertytown Metarhyolite |
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Ranges from a dark purplish to a bluish black or red with macrophenocycts of pink and white feldspar. | Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania | Libertytown Metarhyolite Formation |
Licking Creek Chert |
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Black with sandy texture inclusions. | Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland | Licking Creek Member of the Helderberg Formation |
Limeport Chert |
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Ranges from a gray to a bluish gray or black, banding may be present. | Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey | Limeport Member of the Allentown Formation |
Longview Chert Knox variation |
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Primarily reddish, but white to gray colors do occur | Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania | Longview Member of the Knox formation |
Martin Point Jasper |
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Ranges from a mustard yellow to a yellowish brown or red. | Maryland | ||
Meadow Mountain Chert |
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Mottled blue gray with white streaks present. |
West Virginia, Maryland | Possible Foreknob Formation | |
Mogothy Quartzite AKA: Magothy Quartzite |
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Ranges in color from gray to bluish gray or purple, banding or mottling may be present. Small fossils may give a peppered appearance. | Virginia, Delaware, Maryland | Mogothy Formation | |
New Market Chert AKA: Row Park Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. | Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland | New Market Limestone Formation of the St. Paul Group |
New Scotland Chert AKA: Corriganville Chert |
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Ranges from a white to very light colors. | New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia | New Scotland Formation (Corriganville Formation) of the Helderberg Group |
Nittany Chert |
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Ranges from a medium to dark gray with siliceous oolites. Red jasper also occurs in this formation. | Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia | Nittany Dolomite Formation, Beekmantown Group |
Onodaga Chert AKA: See page |
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Vary from light to dark gray to a mottled bluish gray to a dark brown or black or tan. | West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland (see page for full list) | Onondaga Limestone Formation |
Oriskany Solicified Sandstone |
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White | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia | Oriskany Sandstone Formation | |
Orthoquartzite (Generic type) |
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Varies | North America | Varies | |
Patuxent - Mattaponi Quartzite AKA: Mattaponi Quartzite |
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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. | West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina | Patuxent / Mattaponi Formation | |
Pinesburg Station Chert |
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Ranges from a white to very light gray. | West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Pinesburg Station Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Point of Rocks Jasper |
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Ranges from a mustard yellow to a yellowish brown with grays also occurring. | Virginia, Maryland | ||
Quartz |
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Milky white with thin veins |
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Quartzite |
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Varies from white to gray, or pink and tan in color | North America | ||
Rhyolite |
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Gray to grayish black, flow banding may be present alternating from light to darker gray | Eastern North America | ||
Ridgely Quartzite |
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Ranges from white to a light tan or a medium gray or pink. | West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia | Ridgely Sandstone Member of the Oriskany Formation | |
Rockdale Run Chert |
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Ranges from a light to medium gray. |
West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania | Rockdale Run Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Shiver Chert |
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Ranges in color from a medium gray to black | New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia | Shiver Formation of the Helderberg Group |
Stonehenge Chert AKA: Stonehenge - Chepultepec Chert |
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Ranges from a dark gray to black. | West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey | Stonehenge Limestone Formation of the Beekmantown Group |
Sugarloaf Mountain Quartzite |
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White | Maryland | Sugarloaf Mountain Quartzite Formation | |
Tomstown Chert |
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Ranges from beds of bluish gray to a yellowish gray blue, or white with mottling commonly present and nodules of white. | Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia | Tomstown Dolomite Formation |
Trading Run Chert |
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Light color ranging from a mottled white to gray, cream to yellow, and pinks with iron staining commonly present. | West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland | Helderberg Formation |
Tuscarora Quartzite AKA: Massanutten Quartzite |
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White and gray | West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia | Tuscarora Quartzite Formation of the Judy Gap Group | |
Uniontown Chert AKA: Waynesburg Chert |
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Ranges from light to medium gray or yellowish brown with yellow streaks. | West Virginia, Maryland | Uniontown Formation of the Monongahela Group. |
Waynesboro Chert AKA: Rome Chert |
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Ranges from a very dark gray to black | Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland | Waynesboro Limestone Formation (Rome Limestone Formation) |
Weverton Quartzite |
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Feldspathic and ranges from a grayish white to medium light gray. | Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia | Buzzard Knob Member of the Weverton Quartzite Formation, Chilhowee Group | |
Wissahickon Quartzite / Vein Quartz |
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gray quartzite with milky white veins of quartz. | Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware | Wissahickon Formation |