Novaculite forms light grey flatirons in the Marathon Uplift area of Texas.[1]
Novaculite, also called Arkansas Stone, is a microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline rock type that consists of silica in the form of chert or flint. It is commonly white to grey or black in color, with a specific gravity that ranges from 2.2 to 2.5. It is used in the production of sharpening stones. It occurs in parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, as well as in Japan and parts of the Middle East. The name novaculite is derived from the Latin word novacula, meaning a sharp knife, dagger, or razor,[2] in reference to its use in sharpening. The first recorded use of the term whetstone was in reference to a honing stone from Arkansas.[3]
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Novaculite, also called Arkansas Stone, is a microcrystalline to cryptocrystalline rock type that consists of silica in the form of chert or flint. It...
The Caballos Novaculite is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal Texas portal Paleontology...
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...
bottom. The Arkansas Novaculite consists of lower, middle, and upper members. The lower member is a massive fractured novaculite, and is the dominant...
content of opal-CT, recrystallizes at very shallow depths. The Caballos Novaculite of Texas also shows signs of very shallow water deposition, including...
compact group of mountains composed of the weather-resistant Arkansas Novaculite. They are located primarily in Montgomery and Polk counties, Arkansas...
essentially a hypersthene-bearing monzonite Minette – A variety of lamprophyre Novaculite – Type of rock – A type of chert found in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas...
including copper bracelets, beads, and gorgets, art objects made from mica, novaculite, hematite, banded slate, and other kinds of stone, shell beads and cups...
recovered. Several of the recovered artifacts were of nonlocal chert, such as novaculite, characteristic of the Poverty Point site raw material assemblage. Until...
Carboniferous Type Formation Underlies Dimple Limestone Overlies Caballos Novaculite Location Region Texas Country United States Type section Named for Tesnus...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
3133/GF79. Wikidata Q63225784. Griswold, L.S. (1892). "Whetstones and the novaculites" (PDF). Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Arkansas for 1890....
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...
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...
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...
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...
explains the reported epitaxial intergrowths. Kidwellite was described from novaculite deposits in Arkansas by Moore and Ito. Even though there are numerous...
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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