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JustinNC

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silicified limestone?
« on: March 27, 2011, 01:41:57 am »
Doing some "homework" for a flint run......does "silicified limestone" = knappable....atleast in theory?
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2011, 04:40:34 am »
Yes
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2011, 12:39:49 pm »
hmm well it would appear that the place where this 'silicified limestone' exists, had been turned into something else....so not sure if there is any exposed there or not.....back to the drawing board
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2011, 02:15:02 pm »
Yep, there's some in eastern TN that percussion knaps about like mid-grade rhyolite. Works good with wooden billets. You can't make anything small and detailed out of most of it, but it's good for big Savannah Rivers, axes, and such.
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2011, 01:03:54 am »
Any pictures of the stuff? Ain't nothing but limestone around my neck of the woods. I've picked up a bunch of building stone that has that ting, ting, ting sound when ya tap it but never tried to knap any..
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2011, 10:44:30 am »
no. no pictures... :(
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2011, 04:13:03 pm »
Here's some of the TN stuff:



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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2011, 04:20:21 pm »
Thanks Steve! Hell, that actually looks like flint ;D. Nope, no limestone by that description around here...
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2011, 04:31:38 pm »
Paul, usually if it makes a loud, clear ting when you tap it, you can fram it with a wooden billet. Alibates is actually a really high grade silicified limestone/dolomite.
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2011, 06:45:39 pm »
looks to be about the same texture as the rhyolite I have.
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2011, 08:25:09 pm »
ooooooOOOOOOOOooooooo

that looks like god stuff
can i try some  ;D
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2011, 11:02:35 pm »
That close up shot of the one in your hand does resemble some kind or rhyolite, rips and tears everywhere - looks tough. I read about the allibates dolomite today. By the looks of the pictures theirs tons of it in that ten square mile area but nobody can touch it. I need to get ahold of El Destructo!
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2011, 11:57:39 pm »
That grey stuff looks like Dolomitic limestone.
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2011, 12:25:43 am »
That's what it is, Eddie-silicious dolomitic limestone from the Knox formation.
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Re: silicified limestone?
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2011, 12:38:41 am »
I love the color of that stuff! I think I have to have some now.
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