Seneca Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 3 Oct 2001
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Collector
content: Joseph Sullivan
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1668 (Seneca Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock and modern quarry. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material.
label: Notes
content: L-1668 (Seneca Chert): Seneca is high up in the quarry overlaying the Moorehouse Member separated by the tioga Bentonite ash. This light grey chert is much different in color than the black Seneca chert found in Cayuga Creek, Belleview, Cheektowaga, Erie County, NY.
label: Notes
content: Seneca Chert, also known as Foraker or Ottawa (OK), is a medium gray to dark gray, nearly black chert. When weathered it becomes light gray. It is very fossiliferous with tiny microfossil fragments. It has a smooth to coarse texture. Depoosits include nodules in Seneca Limestone underlain by the Tioga Bentonite Ash Beds.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Stage- Eifelian, Group- Hamilton, Form- Onondaga, Member- Seneca
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Hanson Quarries, Honeoye Falls, Mendon Township, Monroe Co., NY; Buffalo Crushed Stone Quarry, and nearby Cayuga Creek Cheektowaga, Erie County, NY; Hanson Quarries, Stafford, Stafford Township, Genesee CO., NY
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Biface knife distal fragment and a round base drill #828 of Seneca Chert, Eton Site, West Seneca, Erie County, NY
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Stafford Township, Genesee County, 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: A598870-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone