Novaculite, also called Arkansas Stone, is a microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline rock type that consists of silica in the form of chert or flint. It...
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typically formed of quartz, such as novaculite. The Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas are noted as a source for these. Novaculite and other stone formations are...
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The Caballos Novaculite is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal Texas portal Paleontology...
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bottom. The Arkansas Novaculite consists of lower, middle, and upper members. The lower member is a massive fractured novaculite, and is the dominant...
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content of opal-CT, recrystallizes at very shallow depths. The Caballos Novaculite of Texas also shows signs of very shallow water deposition, including...
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compact group of mountains composed of the weather-resistant Arkansas Novaculite. They are located primarily in Montgomery and Polk counties, Arkansas...
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essentially a hypersthene-bearing monzonite Minette – A variety of lamprophyre Novaculite – Type of rock – A type of chert found in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas...
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Novaculite flatirons on the flank of East Bourland Mountain in the Marathon Uplift of West Texas...
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retaining wall about 84 feet (26 m) long. The wall was built out of quarried novaculite stone set with grapevine mortar joints in 1935 by a crew of the Civilian...
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(impure corundum) Diamond dust (synthetic diamonds are used extensively) Novaculite Pumice Iron(III) oxide Sand Corundum Garnet Sandstone Rotten stone (Tripoli)...
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including copper bracelets, beads, and gorgets, art objects made from mica, novaculite, hematite, banded slate, and other kinds of stone, shell beads and cups...
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Andalusite Limestone / Dolomite Marble Mica Mirabilite Natron Nahcolite Novaculite Olivine Perlite Phosphate Potash –Potassium minerals Pumice Quartz Slate...
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Carboniferous Type Formation Underlies Dimple Limestone Overlies Caballos Novaculite Location Region Texas Country United States Type section Named for Tesnus...
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Novaculite flatirons in the Marathon Uplift...
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recovered. Several of the recovered artifacts were of nonlocal chert, such as novaculite, characteristic of the Poverty Point site raw material assemblage. Until...
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in Hot Spring County, Arkansas. The site was used as a source of black novaculite, a relatively rare form of chert. Evidence of Native American quarrying...
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Kenyte Lapis lazuli Larvikite Litchfieldite Llanite Luxullianite Mangerite Novaculite Pietersite Pyrolite Rapakivi granite Rhomb porphyry Rodingite Shonkinite...
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entrance to Fitch Bay and is south of Gull Island. It is named for the novaculite oil stone that was mined there. Gull Island (at approximately 45°03′31″N...
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community of Arkansas for many years both before and after that time. Large novaculite boulders in the bed of the Ouachita River made the location of Rockport...
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County, Texas, where it grows in beds of Selaginella in rocky soils of novaculite origin. There was only one population known as of 1984, and it probably...
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importance are the novaculites from Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas which were deposited at the close of the Devonian. The novaculites are milky-white, thinly-bedded...
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limited to one outcrop in the Marathon Uplift, where it grows in rocky novaculite soils. It was added to the endangered species list in 1979. The cactus'...
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of America. 19: 556–557. Griswold, L.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 3. v t...
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phase in oxidized magnetite and limonite deposits. It also occurs in novaculites and in iron and phosphorus rich sediments. Warr, L.N. (2021). "IMA–CNMNC...
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Survey Bulletin. 660-C: 67. Griswold, L.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 3. Purdue...
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and the sacred territory of the Great Spirit. Close to the springs is a novaculite quarry that was used as a source for material for tools, weapons and household...
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3133/GF79. Wikidata Q63225784. Griswold, L.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites" (PDF). Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890....
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explains the reported epitaxial intergrowths. Kidwellite was described from novaculite deposits in Arkansas by Moore and Ito. Even though there are numerous...
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56. Noble, P.J. (1994), Silurian radiolarian zonation for the Caballos Novaculite, Marathon uplift, west Texas, Bulletins of American Paleontology, v. 106...
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doi:10.1130/GSAB-19-513. Griswold, I.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites". Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890. 3. v t...
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