Carter Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: May 1993
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-252 (Carter Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-252 (Carter Chert)
label: Notes
content: Carter Chert is also known as Carter Cave, Carter Wedge, Elkhorn, Paoli, Paoli-Beaver Bend, or Newman. It is light olive gray, light bluish gray, pale brown, brown, caramel, cream, orange, white, maroon, or red streaked. There is little color change when heat-treated but it becomes glossy and/or shades of red. When weathered it has a white cortex. Inclusions include cryptocrystalline quartz, dolomite, hematite, and chalcedonic quartz filled cavities and various fossils. It has a very smooth texture. Deposits include tabular, nodular, and bedded. SEE ALSO: PAOLI
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Series- Upper Mississippian, From- Newman Limestone, Member- Paoli-Beaver Bend
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Carter, Greenup, Lewis and other counties of northeastern Kentucky including Powell.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleo-Indian
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 20
place: label: Place
content: Carter City (above), Carter County, Kentucky, 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: A598459-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone