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Okay I will try to show some. Ridge and Valley chert is my favorite type which I find here in north Georgia. Comes in many colors but I prefer the black multi colors. 
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Carter Cave chert is one of my favorites. After that, I'd say Paloi."The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. LeeComment
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I was gonna start a new thread but I see KP has given this one a revival. Thanks Eathan! This all is really very informative. Conglomerates are probably my favorite lithic because they contain some of the best of many types of lithics found in a given area. The one most common to my area (northeastMS) has a black matrix with a high amount of yellow Jasper. I don't have any points made from this but I do have a few examples of scrapers. Funny (to some) story, I took a friend to a camp where I had hunted extensively and found a lot of this kind of debitage. I had explained that it was my favorite lithic and if ever I was to find a conglomerate arrowhead, that I expected to find one there. Within 20 minutes or so boom, HE found one! A nice, thinish, Woodland stemmed point, probably a knife, about 2". He had just gotten into collecting and has since went on to fill up a few cases. I'm glad to have helped him get started. We have since grown apart but every time I see him he asks if I've found one yet! I don't even have a picture. Now on to the rock. This stuff is obviously hard to knap so I'm sure arrowheads are rare to find but I have seen a few and even a few large tools including chisels and axes. If anyone has examples of conglomerates, please show them!
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This Jack's Reef Corner Notch is made of the only example of oolitic chert I have found in Rhode Island. The lithic is from Pa.
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This is a Dudley variety of a Mansion Inn Blade, made of Hingham Rhyolite. Found by my wife in the early 90's, on the banks of a stream near home....
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Obsidian, Zaleski. also like Flint Ridge, Carter Cave, etc.
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Creek find on those? A good quality black flint will get a sheen like that from water polish. Real nice finds -
The Obsidian piece on the left has patina except where the tip break is, that's why it looks so dull, most of my other Obsidian finds are shinier. Some of them came from vineyard plowing, others from the creeks. Also that piece is much older. It was in the ground too.
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Jasper....rare here in Connecticut....heard it most likely traded from PennsylvaniaSW ConnecticutComment
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It looks as though we are all blessed with some awesome lithic material in our regions, I am from NE Ohio and am partial to the Flintridge material, it is also our State gem stone. This is a pic of some lancets/bladlets/small knives I have found in Stark, Mahoning and Columbiana counties.
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Coastal Plain Chert, Brier Creek variant. This is some photos of it the upper left point is a modern point made out of it. Which did not pick up the true color of it in photo. It is more redish brown. The other pieces have a more vibrant color but patinates to a duller color over the years.
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Butterscotch carter cave flint, motley point from Kentucky.
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That's awesome rockSW ConnecticutComment
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o Some more Ridge and Valley chert personal finds. Little Adze
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Both of those are Adena time frame. Same area different sitesNW Georgia,Comment
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Not sure about most of the materials other than the petrified wood (the purple) and supposedly petrified bog is what the multi colored one is all utah finds
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