Chalk (Limestone variant)
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
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Chalk (Limestone variant)
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Gravel or Pebble
Clastic Sedimentary Grain (typically composed of Quartz or Silicate minerals)
Green Aventurine and Clear Quartz
Aventurine (variety of Quartz - SiO2) and Quartz (SiO2)
River Rocks (Black)
Various lithologies (e.g., basalt, chert, obsidian for black varieties), mechanically rounded clasts
Sulfur on Aragonite
Sulfur (S) on Aragonite (CaCO3)
Likely weathered limestone or calcite-rich stone
Limestone, primarily calcium carbonate (CaCO₃), possibly calcite
Quartz Geode Fragment
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Green Jasper
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with impurities
Jasper
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Sulfur (with Matrix)
Native Sulfur (S8)
Septarian Nodule
Septarian Concretion (Composition: Calcite, Aragonite, and Limestone/Clay)
Jasper
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Chert / Flint
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Clear Quartz
Quartz (Silicon Dioxide, SiO2)
Chert (Jasper variety)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Basalt with Vesicle/Vug
Basalt (Aphanitic Mafic Igneous Rock)
Likely pink feldspar-rich granite or pegmatite
Granite/pegmatite; primarily quartz (SiO₂), alkali feldspar (KAlSi₃O₈), and plagioclase feldspar
Milky Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Coquina
Bioclastic Limestone (composed primarily of CaCO3)
Que Sera Stone (Llanite / Blue Quartz with Feldspar and Iron Oxides)
Porphyritic Rhyolite (Quartz-Feldspar Porphyry)
Conglomerate
Sedimentary Conglomerate
Apatite
Fluorapatite, Chlorapatite, and Hydroxylapatite (Ca5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH))
Weathered quartz-rich stone, possibly chalcedony or calcite
Likely microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂) or calcite (CaCO₃); exact identification requires testing
Granite or Granitic Gneiss
Granitoid / Gneiss
Granite
Phaneritic Acidic Igneous Rock (composed of Quartz, Alkali Feldspar, and Plagioclase)
Weathered sandstone
Quartz-rich clastic sandstone, likely iron-oxide-stained
Quartz Druzy (Geode Fragment)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Granite or Granodiorite (weathered fieldstone)
Granitoid
Vesicular basalt (likely amygdaloidal basalt)
Basalt, a mafic volcanic rock composed mainly of plagioclase feldspar, clinopyroxene, and commonly olivine; vesicles are partly mineral-filled amygdules.
Tumbled red jasper
Jasper, an opaque microcrystalline variety of quartz (SiO₂), colored mainly by iron oxides
Limestone
Calcite-rich sedimentary rock (CaCO3)
Almandine Garnet in Matrix
Almandine (Fe3Al2(SiO4)3)
Ferruginous Quartz
Silicon Dioxide with Iron Oxide (SiO2 + Fe2O3)
Vein-bearing sandstone or quartzite cobble
Quartz-rich sandstone with white quartz veins; possibly metamorphosed to quartzite
Concrete / Conglomerate (Man-made)
Artificial Conglomerate (Cementitious Composite)
Rainbow Fluorite
Fluorite (Calcium Fluoride, CaF2)
Serpentinite
Serpentinite (composed primarily of minerals in the Serpentine group: Chrysotile, Lizardite, and Antigorite)
Sandstone (Ferruginous)
Ferruginous Sandstone (SiO2 with Fe2O3/FeO(OH) cement)
Quartz (Vein Quartz)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Limonite (Ochreous Sandstone)
Hydrous ferric oxides (FeO(OH)qnH2O)
Emerald (or possibly Green Glass / Slag)
Beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6)