Quartz (Milk/Citrine variety)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Category
Browse rock (likely sedimentary) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Quartz (Milk/Citrine variety)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Sandstone (with secondary weathering/concretion)
Arenite (composed primarily of Quartz, SiO2)
Jasper (Ferruginous Quartz)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with iron oxide inclusions
Fossiliferous limestone (likely crinoidal or shell limestone)
Calcite-rich limestone; predominantly CaCO₃, with visible fossil fragments
Shale
Fissile Mudstone
Sandstone (Ferruginous)
Clastic Sedimentary Rock (SiO2 with Fe2O3/FeOOH cement)
Sandstone Anvil / Nutting Stone
Quartzose Sandstone (Sedimentary Rock)
Chert (Jasper variety)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Rounded greenish river pebble, likely basalt or altered volcanic rock
Probable basalt (fine-grained mafic silicate rock), possibly epidote/chlorite-altered
Sandstone Pebble
Quartz Sandstone
Copper-bearing Quartz (likely Chrysocolla or Malachite staining)
Cuprite, Chrysocolla (Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4·nH2O) or Malachite staining on Quartz/Host Rock
Sandstone
Arenite (primarily composed of SiO2)
Concretion
Sedimentary Concretion
Shale
Shale (Lutite)
Quartz Geode
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) within a geode
Quartz (Milky Variant)
Quartz (Silicon Dioxide, SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Weathered sandstone or quartz-rich sedimentary pebble
Indeterminate lithic fragment; likely quartz arenite (sandstone)
Weathered quartz-bearing rock, possibly granite or gneiss
Indeterminate; likely quartz–feldspar–mica aggregate, possibly granitic gneiss
Agate
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - variety Chalcedony
Agate (specifically a Yellow/Honey Agate)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - Microcrystalline Quartz
Quartz Crystal on Matrix
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Banded Iron Formation (BIF)
Banded Iron Formation (Oxide Facies)
Fossilized Brachiopod Shell
Phylum Brachiopoda (likely Order Spiriferida or Strophomenida)
Chert (Jasper/Agate variety)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Chert (Jasper variety)
Cryptocrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Chert (River Pebble)
Microcrystalline silica (SiO2)
Chert (Iron-stained)
Microcrystalline or Cryptocrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Calcite
Calcite (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃)
Porphyritic polymictic breccia (likely volcanic breccia)
Volcanic breccia; probable polymictic andesite–dacite breccia with quartz/feldspar clasts
Iron-rich vesicular rock, possibly slag or weathered basalt
Identification uncertain; likely ferruginous basalt/ironstone, with possible anthropogenic iron slag
Limonite (Ochreous Sandstone)
Hydrous ferric oxides (FeO(OH)qnH2O)
Quartz geode (likely amethyst-bearing)
Silica geode; quartz, SiO₂, with possible amethyst and minor iron oxides
Concretionary limestone or calcarenite pebble
Micritic limestone/calcarenite, primarily calcite (CaCO₃)
Likely weathered sandstone or quartzite
Quartz-rich sandstone; possibly metamorphosed to quartzite (SiO₂-dominant)
Weathered banded sandstone pebble
Quartz-rich sandstone (predominantly SiO₂)
Fossiliferous limestone
Calcite-rich limestone (CaCO₃), containing possible fossil or peloidal inclusions
Chert (with Limonite staining)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Fossiliferous Calcilutite / Biomicrite
Coquina
Biogenic Limestone (Calcite, CaCO3)
Chert (often called Flint or River Stone)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Chert (Yellow or Tan Chert)
Microcrystalline or Cryptocrystalline Quartz (SiO2)