Kenneth Chert (AKA Lafayette Speckled)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 19 Nov 1999
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: S-1789 (Kenneth Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material.
label: Notes
content: S-1789 (Kenneth Chert): Grainy variety.
label: Notes
content: Kenneth Chert, also known as Lafayette Speckled or Eel River, is a white, gray, blue, bluish gray, or olive brown chert. Samples are often mottled or speckled. When heat-treated it becomes glossy with no color change. When weathered it becomes chalky. It has inclusions of fossils, calcite, quartz, dolomite, and drusy. It has a granular to fine texture. Deposits include tabular and nodular.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Silurian, Series- Upper Silurian, Group- Salina, Form- Wabash, Member- Kenneth Limestone
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Roadcut exposures west of Logansport, Cass County, Indiana; Abandoned France Stone Co., quarry near Kenneth, Cass Co., IN
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Cass County, Indiana, 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: A598323-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone