Fayetteville Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1998
name: label: Collector
content: Don Dickson
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1482 (Fayetteville Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1482 (Fayetteville Chert): This variety has pyritic inclusions while Fayetteville no. 1003 does not. No. 1003 has crystal quartz stringers. Material looks like an argillite or silicified shale. No. 1482 (this one) is glossy black with a medium brown cortex which may be the limestone (white) matrix.
label: Notes
content: Fayetteville Chert is a black chert. When weathered it becomes light brown. It has iron pyrite flecks and rarely calcite streaks. It has a coarse to very smooth texture. Deposits in Fayetteville chert and shale below the Pitkin Formation.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Series- Upper Mississippian, Form- Fayetteville
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Eleven and three tenths miles east of junction highways 65 and 66 at Leslie, AR; On highway 66 sign (at pull-off space) says "falling rock"; Stone County, Arkansas.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Leslie, Stone County, Arkansas, 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: A598084-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone