Reeds Spring Chert (Rare Variety)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Don Dickson
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1578 (Reeds Spring Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1578 (Reeds Spring Chert): Considered a very rare Reeds Spring Chert variety. Reeds Spring Formation.
label: Notes
content: Reeds Spring Chert is also known as Barren Fork, Boone, Carr Branch, Frog Egg, Grand Falls, Keokuk, Sallisaw, Tahlequah, or Woodford. It is bluish gray, light gray, or yellowish brown in color. When weathered limestone matrix is very light gray (N8), to pinkish gray (5YR 8/1). It has an aphantic, very fine grained, opaque texture. Deposits include tabular.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Stage- Kinderhookian, Form- Reeds Spring
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: In limestone outcrop at east end of Crystal Lake, Benton Co., Arkansas; northwestern Arkansas, southwestern Missouri, and northeastern Oklahoma.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gentry, Benton County, Arkansas, 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: A598044-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone