Buttermilk Falls Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Collector
content: Kathy Allen
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-596 (Buttermilk Falls Chert): Not a collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-596 (Buttermilk Falls Chert)
label: Notes
content: Buttermilk Falls Chert is also known as Foxtown, Onondaga, or Stroudsburg. It is shades of gray and black. There is very little change in color when heat-treated. When weathered it becomes white to gray. It has a smooth texture. Deposits include nodular and tabular.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Form- Buttermilk Falls Limestone, Member- Moorehouse and Edgecliff
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Several road cut exposures on Rt. 209 a few miles north of Marshalls Creek and behind a small shopping plaza on the northeast edge of the same town where a cut was made into the hillside to accommodate construction, Monroe County, PA; Cherty, streaky limestone of the Buttermilk Falls Formation may be seen at mile 307, and between miles 309-310 on I-80, lying beneath the Marcellus shale; Completely exposed at West Bowmans, PA; Also deep road cut along the Northeast Extension Pennsylvania Turnpike at West Bowmans
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 11
place: label: Place
content: Minisink Hills, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2071475
label: USNM Number
content: A599486-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone