Dakota Quartzite
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Dec 1989
name: label: Collector
content: Ivan Imel
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-414 (Dakota Quartzite): Not a collection from archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure.Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-414 (Dakota Quartzite)
label: Notes
content: Dakota Quartzite, also known as Solid Quartzite, is a quartzite, orthoquartzite, or silica-cemented sandstone. It is white and gray, purple, red, brown, white, gray, or pink. It has a medium - coarse grained to very fine grained texture. Deposits include cobbles in alluvial deposits, pebbles, cobbles, and boulders.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Cretaceous, Form- Upper Cretaceous, Form- Dakota/Black Hills (?)
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Southern Black Hills such as Battle Mountain, Flint Hill, and Spanish Diggings area of the southeastern Wyoming; Alluvial deposits outcropping near Ft. Sumner and Tucumcari, New Mexico; Chalcedony/Jasper pebbles, cobbles, and boulders and silicified sandstone, Quay & Roosevelt Cos., New Mexico.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Aboriginal quarries Battle Mountain and Flint Hill; Implements of Dakota Quartzite from Mitchell Locality of Blackwater Draw, a stratified Folsom site in Eastern New Mexico.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Quay County, New Mexico, 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: A598819-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone