Greenfield Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 2001
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Collector
content: Michael Kagelmacher
label: Collector
content: Todd Harrington
label: Collector
content: Joseph Sullivan
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1388 (Greenfield Chert): Provenience includes (abandoned) modern quarry. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1388 (Greenfield Chert): Very thin lenses deposited on boulders laying on the quarry floor.
label: Notes
content: Greenfield Chert is a gray chert with white inclusions sandwhiched between light gray and dolomite. When weathered it becomes dark gray. Fossiliferous inclusions include stylolites, ostrocods, and poorly preserved brachiopods. There are also quartz crystal fragments and chalcedony-like inclusions. It has a smooth texture. Deposits are found in laminated dark-gray dolomite.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Silurian, Group- Bass Island, Form- Greenfield
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Dolomite quarry behind the residence of Charles Smith, on a hill 2 miles north of Samantha, highland Co., Ohio; Also an exposure 1.25 miles farther east where the road crosses a headwater of Bridgewater Creek. The approximate base of the Greenfield is exposed at an elevation of 1050 feet.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 23
place: label: Place
content: Highland County, Ohio, 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: A599094-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone