Chert / Flint Pebble
Microcrystalline Silica (SiO2)
Category
Browse sedimentary (with some aspects of mineral replacement) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Chert / Flint Pebble
Microcrystalline Silica (SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Fluorite
Calcium Fluoride (CaF2)
Chert (Flint Nodules)
Chert (Silicon Dioxide, SiO2)
Polished red jasper
Jasper, an opaque microcrystalline variety of quartz (SiO₂), colored mainly by iron oxides
Quartz Geode
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Fossilized bivalve shell
Paleozoic–Mesozoic bivalve fossil; commonly classified as Bivalvia indet.
Fossil gastropod shell
Fossilized or mineral-replaced gastropod (class Gastropoda), exact genus indeterminate
Chert Nodule in Limestone
Chert (Microcrystalline Quartz, SiO2) and Limestone (Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3)
Greenstone / River Siltstone
Metasedimentary Greenstone (Chlorite-rich Siltstone)
Chert (Flint)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Green Jasper
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with iron silicate inclusions
Jasper
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Banded Gneiss
Gneiss
Shark Tooth Fossil
Chondrichthyes fossil
Quartz pebble
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Tumbled brown agate
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), variety of chalcedony
River Stone (Greywacke)
Greywacke (immature sandstone)
Polished orbicular agate beads
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), chalcedony with orbicular banding
Fossilized Bone / Dinosaur Fossil
Fossilized vertebrate bone (permineralized)
Chert (Nodule)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - Cryptocrystalline Quartz
Polished fossil shell or bone fragment (tentative)
Indeterminate biogenic carbonate or fossilized bone; possibly a small gastropod/bivalve fragment
Weathered fossil fragment, possibly bone
Indeterminate fossilized bone; likely mineralized vertebrate bone (apatite-rich)
Orbicular jasper (likely ocean jasper)
Silicified microcrystalline quartz/chalcedony, commonly called Ocean Jasper; predominantly SiO₂ with iron-oxide inclusions
Fossilized Bark
Lepidodendron / Sigillaria fossil impression
Chert (varietal Jasper or Mudstone Flint)
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) with impurities
Jasper
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) with iron oxide inclusions
Chert Geode or Nodule
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Flint
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - variety of Chert
Fossil Shell (Bivalve)
Class Bivalvia (Likely a member of the Ostreidae or Gryphaeidae family), CaCO3
Fossilized Coral (Favosites)
Favosites (extinct genus of tabulate coral)
Amber (likely a small rough amber piece)
Fossilized plant resin; amber is an organic mineraloid, not a crystalline mineral
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Flint
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Flint
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Jasper
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Jasper
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO2)
Flint (Chert)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Flint / Chert
Silicon dioxide (Microcrystalline quartz, SiO2)
Flint
SiO2 (Cryptocrystalline Quartz)
Flint / Chert
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Flint (Chert)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)