Fourmile Creek Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 6 Nov 1995
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: Jeff Bursey
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1188 (Fourmile Creek Chert): Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1188 (Fourmile Creek Chert)
label: Notes
content: Four Mile Creek Chert is also known as Brassfield, Laurel, or Salamonie. It is pink, off-white to gray, white, light blue, or light blue-gray in color. When heat-treated it becomes blue, purple, red, or pink. When weathered it has a chalky surface. It has pyrite, chalcedony, and dolomite inclusions. It has a vitreous to earthy luster. Deposits are across layers of gray dolomite.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Silurian, Series- Lower, Stage- Niagran, Group- Salina, Form- Salamonie, Member- Laurel
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Outcrops along the bank of Four Mile Creek, Preble and Darke counties, Ohio; Outcrops at the base of the west bank of Four Mile Creek immediately south of Four Mile State Road, Dixon Township, Preble Co.,OH.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleoindian to Ft. Ancient
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 29
place: label: Place
content: Dixon Township, Preble County, Ohio, 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: A599130-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone