Seneca Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Dec 2001
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1667 (Seneca Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock and prehistoric 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-1667 (Seneca Chert):
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: 13
place: label: Place
content: Cheektowaga Township, Erie 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: A598846-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone