Uniontown (AKA St. Xavier) Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 2 Apr 2000
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Collector
content: Brian Fritz
label: Collector
content: Robert Oshnock
label: Collector
content: Gerry Reap
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1679 (Uniontown Chert): Provenience includes float/residuum. 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-1679 (Uniontown Chert)
label: Notes
content: Uniontown Chert is also known as Chartiers Valley, Monongahela, Uniontown Flint, or St. Xavier. It is gray brown, mottled brown, medium to light gray, olive gray, very pale orange, yellowish gray, dark yellowish brown, or olive black. When weathered it becomes moderate yellowish brown to dark gray. May have abundant non-marine ostracod fossil inclusions. Lustrous texture that varies earthy to dull waxy. Deposits include tuberous nodules elongated parallel to bedding in the limestone. Nodules 2.5 cm (1.0") in diameter to 30.5 cm (1') thick. Yellowish streaks in chert generally parallel to bedding in surrounding limestone. Also occurs as float.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Series- Upper Pennsylvanian, Group-Monongahela, Form- Uniontown
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Extensive concentrations on the slopes of Little Chartiers Creek, from mouth to 11.3 (7 miles) upstream, Chartiers Valley, Washington County, PA, north of Cannonsburg; Thorpe Farm, Allegheny Co., PA; St. Xavier, Westmoreland Co., PA.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Site 36AL285, multicomponent Archaic-Woodland; Meadowcroft, 36WH298
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 12
place: label: Place
content: Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 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: A599519-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone