Huronian Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Apr 1991
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: Bill Fox
label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-878 (Huronian Chert): Provenience includes gravel deposits & modern quarry. 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-878 (Huronian Chert)
label: Notes
content: 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 brown 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: Epoch- Middle Ordovician, Series- Caradocian, Stage- Wilderness, Group- Black River, Form- Gull River, Member- Lower Gull River
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: 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.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: 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: 15
place: label: Place
content: Medonite 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: A599278-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone