Alibates Flint Quarry

For 12,000 years Alibates Flint Quarries provided people with the raw material they needed to make the tools and weapons necessary for survival: high quality flint.

" .. Alibates Flint, distinctive for its varied coloration, occurs in dolomite outcrops atop Permain Aged Redbeds in the Canadian River breaks near Amarillo and Fritch, Texas. Early inhabitants left shallow pits as evidence and quarry activity .. "

-- see http://www.nps.gov/alfl/

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This photo was taken from the top of Alibates; on the TerraServer image immediately below the photo the car lot (right hand side of picture) is marked on aerial photo w/ red circle and approximate spot where photo was taken is marked in blue.  The trail from parking lot to top of Alibates is marked in yellow.

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Photos

An outcropping of flint :

The photo doesn't do justice to the multi-colors of the flint :

Spring 2001 .. Campsite on Lake Merideth while visiting Alibates .. Rattle Snake island in the distance :