Alibates Flint National Monument, Texas
For thousands of years, people came to the red bluffs above the Canadian River for flint, vital to their existence. Demand for the high quality, rainbow-hued flint is reflected in the distribution of Alibates F... More
Alibates Flint National Monument, Texas
For thousands of years, people came to the red bluffs above the Canadian River for flint, vital to their existence. Demand for the high quality, rainbow-hued flint is reflected in the distribution of Alibates F... More
Alibates Flint National Monument, Texas
For thousands of years, people came to the red bluffs above the Canadian River for flint, vital to their existence. Demand for the high quality, rainbow-hued flint is reflected in the distribution of Alibates F... More
Alibates Flint National Monument, Texas
For thousands of years, people came to the red bluffs above the Canadian River for flint, vital to their existence. Demand for the high quality, rainbow-hued flint is reflected in the distribution of Alibates F... More
Dolomite boulder, Alibates Flint Quarries
Alibates Flint formed within the layer of Permian-era dolomite that caps most of the hills around the Canadian River. It is easily seen as a colorful, fine-grained stone within a more coarse, grey or white dolo... More
Alibates flint, Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, 2015.
Alibates flint is more correctly agatized dolomite or silicified dolomite. Archeologists will refer to it as Alibates chert because of its striking colors which are caused by trace mineral elements within the s... More