Gull River (Huronian) Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 13 Sep 2004
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1763 (Gull River Chert): Provenience includes bedrock and modern quarry. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and surrounding matrix.
label: Notes
content: L-1763 (Gull River Chert): Lower Ordovician; Gull River Formation; Collected samples of white micrite and black and white chert nodules. This chert was glacially transported and distributed in Western NY, NW PA, & NE Ohio where it was used prehistorically for chipped stonetool-making.
label: Notes
content: (Information obtained from Huronian Type Sheet) Huronian Chert, also known as Yellow Onondaga and Delaware-Onondaga, is a glacial pebble chert. It is white, light gray, light tan, yellow, light gray and brown, sometimes mottled with light bown carbonate. When heat-treated the white color variety changes to tan, brown, red dark red, red with jasper-like appearance. When weathered it develops a hard, light brown cortex or becomes grey to grey white. May have cephalopod, gastropod, bivalve, siderite, or druzy quartz inclusions. Frequently coated with glauconite. It has a smooth, very fine grained texture. Deposits include nodules and glacial drift.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Huronian Type Sheet) Geology: Epoch- Middle Ordovician, Series- Caradocian, Stage- Wilderness, Group- Black River, Form- Gull River, Member- Lower Gull River
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content: Location remarks: (Information obtained from Huronian Type Sheet) Southern Ontario, Canada; Western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania; Medonite Township, Simcoe County, Ontario; Quarries of the Lake Simcoe are at Coldwater, Uhthoff, and Waubaushene, Ontario.
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content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Huronian Type Sheet) Madison points occur at Late Woodland sites of western N.Y.; Jack's Reef point in Portage site, Art Park, Lewistown, N.Y. collection; Jack's Reef point, Four Rod Road, Alden, N.Y. by Francis McQueen (1994); Site 33Wn337, Washington Co., OH, produced artifacts excavated by Kemrom, Cincinnati, Ohio, identified by JDH (4/7/1995); Heavy usage in NW Penna.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 19
place: label: Place
content: Severn Township, Simcoe County, Ontario, 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: A599280-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone