I have two Limestone Paleo points at home that were collected from Val Verde Texas. I will post a picture of them later tonight. They are not flaked and I dont think you can flake limestone like flint.. but I am no expert so I will leave the flaking diagnostics to the people in the know. I dont even know what they are called so maybe someone will be able to tell me. They are not the best looking by any means but look paleo to me.
I have only one Perd in my group that I call a true limestone. Nice but not finely made.
Carefull how you determine " limestone ". . .Some of the very common and NOT rare lowest quality CHERT can
be a close look alike.
Fortunatly there is a very simple and irrefutable test. Fill a water glass with Swimming pool, Muriatic acid.
Drop the test point in, if it disapears. . . its limestone,, , , , Chert: remove it with rubber gloves!
Hal-Will you be performing this test soon? I have two of these Paleo points from Val Verde and I will sacrifice one to see if it is the perverbial sandstone. I am interested. Can we use yours instead? We will be pioneers in Sandstoneolgy !
Hal-Will you be performing this test soon? I have two of these Paleo points from Val Verde and I will sacrifice one to see if it is the perverbial sandstone. I am interested. Can we use yours instead? We will be pioneers in Sandstoneolgy !
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