Chert / Flint (or lithic artifact flake)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
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Chert / Flint (or lithic artifact flake)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Chert (likely flint), possibly chalcedony-rich
Microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂ (quartz/chalcedony)
Fossil shark tooth
Likely fossilized shark tooth, possibly Otodus or Carcharhinus; exact identification requires a sharper, closer image
Mixed beach pebbles and shell fragments
Mostly carbonate rocks, likely limestone/calcarenite, with mollusk-shell bioclasts; exact species cannot be determined visually
Stromatolite
Laminated biogenic sedimentary structure (Cyanobacteria)
Stromatolite Fossil
Stromatolite (Cyanobacteria biogenic sedimentary structure)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Biogenic Sedimentary Rock (primarily CaCO3)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Autochthonous Biogenic Sedimentary Rock (CaCO3)
Fossilized bone or tooth fragment
Indeterminate fossil bone; possibly mammalian or reptilian
Weathered quartz-rich stone (likely chert or quartzite)
Quartzite or microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂); exact identification is uncertain from the image
Calcite
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
Fossil gastropod shell
Calcareous mollusk shell, chiefly aragonite or calcite (likely a large marine gastropod)
Small metallic-looking mineral/rock fragment
Indeterminate from image; possibly galena, hematite, or metallic slag
Banded limestone or marble fragment
Calcite-rich carbonate rock; likely banded marble (CaCO₃)
Chert
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Fossil coral fragment
Likely calcitic colonial coral, possibly fossilized scleractinian coral
Fossiliferous Limestone
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) with marine fossils
Fossilized cylindrical shell or bone fragment
Indeterminate biogenic carbonate or phosphatic fossil; possible fragment of a tubular shell (e.g., scaphopod) or hollow bone
Fossiliferous Limestone
Biogenic Sedimentary Rock (Calcite, CaCO3)
Chert
Cryptocrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Chert (Chalcedony/Agate)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Fossilized Tooth Fragment
Vertebrate Fossil (Mammalia indet.)
Oyster Shell Fragment
Crassostrea virginica (or related Bivalvia)
Coquina
Biogenic Limestone (Coquina)
Coquina
Biogenic Limestone (Calcitic)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Biogenic Limestone (CaCO3)
Coquina Limestone
Coquina (Biogenic Limestone)
Fossiliferous Limestone (Coquina / Shell Limestone)
Biogenic Limestone (CaCO3)
Coquina
Biogenic Limestone (Coquina)
Chert (Flint)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Fossiliferous Limestone containing a Brachiopod or Mollusk Impression
Biogenic Sedimentary Rock / Fossiliferous Limestone
Fossiliferous Limestone
Biogenic Sedimentary Rock (primarily CaCO3)
Fossil shark tooth, likely sand tiger shark
Fossilized selachian tooth; possibly *Carcharias* or *Striatolamia*
Chert (Nodule)
Microcrystalline Silica (SiO2)
Chert
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Chert
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Chert or Flint
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Shungite
Shungite (Non-crystalline carbon, C)
Amber (Rough)
Amber (Fossilized Tree Resin, succinite)
Brain Coral Fossil
Family Mussidae or Merulinidae (Order Scleractinia)
Petrified wood (polished/cut slab)
Silicified fossil wood, commonly quartz/chalcedony (SiO₂) replacing wood tissue
Weathered quartz-rich rock, likely chert or quartzite
Quartzite/chert; predominantly microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), with iron-oxide staining and possible minor feldspar or clay minerals