Quartz (likely Jasper or Chert variety)
Quartz (SiO₂)
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Quartz (likely Jasper or Chert variety)
Quartz (SiO₂)
Weathered iron-rich sandstone or laterite fragment
Ferruginous sandstone, likely hematite/goethite-cemented sandstone (exact identification requires testing)
Quartz (Crystal Point/Fragment)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Mother of Pearl (Nacre) / Shell Fragment
Biogenic Calcium Carbonate (Aragonite and Conchiolin)
Common Pebble / Sedimentary Rock Fragment
Lithified clastic sediment
Milky quartz vein fragment
Quartz (silicon dioxide, SiO₂), massive/microcrystalline variety
Basalt Breccia
Volcanic Breccia (composed of basaltic clasts in a fine-grained matrix)
Likely weathered fossil bone fragment
Indeterminate fossilized bone; taxonomic identification requires microscopy and locality data
Sea Shell Fragment (Calcium Carbonate)
Aragonite / Calcite (CaCO3)
Sandstone (likely Greywacke or Siltstone variety)
Arenite / Siltstone (primarily SiO2)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Biomicrite / Fossiliferous Limestone (CaCO3)
Sandstone (with potential fossil inclusions)
Clastic sedimentary rock (primarily SiO2)
Likely quartz-rich rock fragment
Probably microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), possibly a pale chert or quartzite fragment
Limestone Gravel
Sedimentary Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
Fossiliferous Limestone (or Bryozoan/Coral Fossil Pebble)
Biogenic Sedimentary Rock (Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3)
Conglomerate
Conglomerate (Clastic Sedimentary Rock)
Likely weathered sandstone or iron-stained quartzite fragment
Quartz-rich sandstone (predominantly SiO₂; exact identification uncertain from image)
Quartz Geode Fragment
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
River Stone / Pebble
Clastic Sediment (composed largely of Quartz, Feldspar, and various rock fragments)
Milky Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Chalcedony (likely agate/chert variety)
Microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂
Fossiliferous Limestone (Hash)
Bioclastic Grainstone / Calcarenite
Conglomerate
Conglomerate
Quartz (likely Milky Quartz)
Quartz (SiO₂ - Silicon Dioxide)
Coquina
Biogenic Limestone (Calcitic shells)
Honey calcite (likely cleavage fragment)
Calcite, CaCO₃
Sea Shell (Fighting Conch Fragment)
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) - Strombus alatus fragment
Porphyritic polymictic breccia (likely volcanic breccia)
Volcanic breccia; probable polymictic andesite–dacite breccia with quartz/feldspar clasts
Mixed collection of common river stones
Varied lithologies, visibly including quartz-rich rock, dark mafic rock, sandstone, and purple quartz-bearing material
Fossilized Bone Chunk
Permineralized Vertebrate Bone (indeterminant)
Chert Breccia
Brecciated Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Conglomerate
Conglomerate (Sedimentary rock)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Biogenic Limestone (CaCO3)
Brecciated Chert
Brecciated Chert (Microcrystalline Quartz, SiO2)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Bioclastic Limestone (CaCO3)
Blue-green calcite
Calcite (CaCO₃), likely copper-bearing or otherwise inclusions-colored
Flint (chert), likely brown flint
Microcrystalline quartz/chalcedony (SiO₂)
Quartz (Smoky/Brown variety)
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Orange calcite fragment
Calcite (CaCO₃), likely iron-stained or orange-colored calcite
Pumice or Tuff
Pumice / Tuff
Brick fragment (Man-made material)
N/A (Fired clay)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Fragment)
Elasmobranchii gen. et sp. indet.