2024-01-11, 08:49 PM
(2024-01-08, 12:49 PM)GowerGulch42 Wrote: The rock looks like a type jasper to me, but I'm not a rock hound. That would be microcrystalline quartz crystals deposited in superheated groundwater with inclusions of hematite and/or other oxide minerals. Jasper is pretty common, and is what most lithic scatter/arrowheads/stone tools are made of.
Thanks for the input! I wish I knew more about rocks, but there's so much to learn and rocks of the same type can look totally different from one another. It seems impossible to ever know enough.