Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal)
Quartz (Silicon Dioxide, SiO2)
Category
Browse sedimentary rock (specifically a chemical sedimentary rock, or a chert if considered purely mineral aggregate) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal)
Quartz (Silicon Dioxide, SiO2)
Quartz Geode/Cluster
Quartz (SiO2)
Cherry Creek Jasper (also known as Red Creek Jasper or Cherry Creek Agate)
Jasper, microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂)
Petoskey Stone (Petrified Favosites)
Favosites (extinct colonial coral), CaCO3 with Silica replacement
Milky Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Shale with Plant Fossils / Carbonaceous Shale
Laminated Mudrock (Siliciclastic)
Quartz with Iron Stains
Quartz (SiO2) with iron oxide/hydroxide staining
Barite Rose (Desert Rose)
Barium Sulfate (BaSO4)
Sandstone
Arenite (primarily SiO2)
Banded Gneiss
Gneiss (Metamorphic high-grade, predominantly SiO2, Al2O3, K2O, Na2O)
Quartz with Iron Stains
Quartz (SiO2) with iron oxide/hydroxide staining
Yellow Jasper
Silicon Dioxide with Limonite/Goethite inclusions (SiO2)
Sandstone
Arenite (primarily SiO2)
Sandstone
Arenite (SiO2 + various cementing minerals)
Gneiss (Cobble)
Gneiss
Petrified Wood
Silicified wood (Quartz/Chalcedony - SiO2)
Sandstone (Ferruginous)
Arenite (primarily SiO2 with iron oxide cement)
Sandstone with Tafoni Weathering
Arenite (SiO2 based)
Red Sandstone
Arenite (primarily Quartz with Hematite cement)
Sandstone (Quartz Sandstone)
Arenite (primarily SiO2)
Turquoise and Hematite
Turquoise (CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O) and Hematite (Fe2O3)
Gneiss
Gneiss
Sandstone (Quartzose Sandstone)
Arenite (primarily SiO2 with minor Fe2O3)
Sandstone
Arenite (primarily SiO2)
Yellow Jasper
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with iron oxide inclusions
Jasper with Quartz inclusion
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - Microcrystalline Quartz
Chert (Flint/Jasper variety)
Microcrystalline or Cryptocrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Nuummite
Nuummite (Orthoamphibole rock / Anthophyllite-Gedrite blend)
Coral Fossil (Petrified Coral)
Scleractinia (Order) - Calcified Fossil Skeleton (CaCO3)
Fossilized Horn Coral
Order Rugosa (Rugose Coral)
Labradorite (a variety of Feldspar)
Labradorite; (Na,Ca)(Al,Si)4O8 (a plagioclase feldspar)
Banded Agate
Sedimentary Cryptocrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Sandstone (Ferruginous)
Clastic sedimentary rock (primarily SiO2 with Fe2O3 cement)
Sandstone
Arenite (primarily SiO2 - Silicon Dioxide)
Red Sandstone
Clastic Terrigenous Sedimentary Rock (composed mostly of SiO2 with Fe2O3)
Sandstone
Arenite (composed primarily of SiO2)
Sandstone
Sandstone (principally SiO2)
Banded Gneiss
Gneiss (High-grade Regional Metamorphic Rock)
Shale or Argillite
Shale (fine-grained clastic sedimentary rock) or Argillite (low-grade metamorphic rock derived from shale)
Quartz Druzy (on Calcedony/Quartz base)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Red Jasper
Jasper (Silicon Dioxide based crypto-crystalline Quartz with Iron inclusions)
Septarian Nodule
Septarian concretion (Complex mixture of Siderite/Limestone, Calcite, and Aragonite)