Pensauken Gravel Jasper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 2000
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Cresson
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1631 (Pensauken Gravel Jasper): Provenience includes gravel deposits. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, modern flint-knappers' work, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1631 (Pensauken Gravel Jasper)
label: Notes
content: (Information obatined from Pensauken Type Sheet) Pensauken, also known as Pensauken gravel, is a chert or jasper. It is brown and yellow jaspers or gray and black cherts. When heat-treated both becomes pale brown, yellow, reddish brown, or reddish yellow. It has a coarse to very fine texture. Deposits include Pleistocene fluvial deposits and gravel deposits.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: (Information obatined from Pensauken Type Sheet) Geology: Epoch- Pleistocene/Miocene, Group- Columbia, Form- Pensauken
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: (Information obatined from Pensauken Type Sheet) Southern 2/3 of New Jersey, Staten Island, and southeastern edge of Pennsylvania; Bucks, Philadelphia, and Delaware Counties.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obatined from Pensauken Type Sheet) n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 12
place: label: Place
content: Mooretown / Mt. Laurel, Burlington County, New Jersey, 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: A598778-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone