Smoky Hills Jasper
AKA: Alma Jasper, Graham Jasper, Republican River Jasper, Niobrarite, Niobrara Chert










Natural Form:



Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Smoky Hills Jasper is often banded and can vary in color from a mustard brown or caramel brown to a chalky or creamy white.  Less commonly red, green, or black does occur, and rarely purple does occur  Commonly little white inclusions are present and rarely mossy black dendrites inclusion are present.

Texture: Course to fine grain

Luster: Dull to chalky (white and yellow) to glossy or vitreous (brown)

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Patina:

Heat Treatment:  Heat treatment produced red tones in the yellow and brown colors.

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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Smoky Hills Jasper is associated with the Smoky Hills Member of the Niobrara Chalk Formation of northwestern Kansas and southwestern Nebraska.  Primary outcroppings occur along the Republican River, Solomon River and Smoky Hills River.  Smaller outcroppings occur along Medicine Creek in Nebraska.
Projectile point made from this material:



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Archaeological Context:
Rarely used prior to 200 B.P. increasing un used during the Odessa Phase.  Found in sites in the northeastern Texas Panhandle and across the eastern third of Oklahoma, throughout Kansas, and into Nebraska.