Lockport Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1994
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: Kevin Smith
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1171 (Lockport Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1171 (Lockport Chert)
label: Notes
content: Lockport Dolomite Flint Chert is also known Ancaster or Goat Island. It is white, dark gray to bluish gray, commonly mottled with darker spots due to the accumulation of foreign matter such as clay, carbonaceous matter, limonite, etc. When heat-treated it becomes pink, purple, red, brown, or black. When weathered it becomes dirty white with reddish-brown discolorations from the weathering of the included pyrite. It has inclusions of xenolithic partially silicified dolomite, sponge spicules, and other fossils. It has a coarse to fine texture. Deposits include elongated nodules.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Silurian, Series- Middle Silurian, Group- Niagaran, Form- Lockport, Member- Oak Orchard/Goat Island/ Eramosa
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Niagara escarpment, Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada; Oak Orchard Creek Member along Orchard Creek from falls at Shelby south for a distance of about 2 miles, nodules of white chert near base, Medina quadrangle, Orleans Co., NY
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Late Archaic tools, Western New York
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 17
place: label: Place
content: Clarendon, New York, 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: A598834-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone