Selkirk Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Sep 1992
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-849 (Selkirk Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. 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-849 (Selkirk Chert)
label: Notes
content: Selkirk Chert, also known as Cathead, Red River (Manitoba), and Dundee, is a dirty white, light gray or black chert. Very fine grained bituminous limestone that weathers into gray fissile material. It has silicified brachiopods, solitary and colonial corals, crinoids, echinoderms, tentaculitids, and black stylolite inclusions. It has a grainy to smooth, crystalline, very crystalline, sub lithographic texture. Deposits include nodules and bands.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Stage- Erian, Form- Dundee
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content: Location remarks: W. Waterville Township, Lucas Co., Ohio; Campbell Quarry, NE 1/4 Sec. 36, T35N R2W, Cheboygan Co., Michigan; Quarry 1.5 km north of Nanticoke, Ontario; Norfolk Quarry 3 km north of Port Dover, Ontario; Vola Beach, Lake Erie, Ontario; outcrop above Dry Creek, 1.3 km north of Cheapside, Ontario; In and along Sandusk Creek, a short distance upstream from Lake Erie confluence, Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ontario.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleo Period.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: Manitoba, Canada, 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: A598525-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone