Monongahela Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 28 Sep 1996
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1298 (Monongahela Chert): Provenience includes float/residuum. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1298 (Monongahela Chert): Delorme #54-D4; From Creek Bank Cliffs.
label: Notes
content: Monongahela Chert is a dark to light gray chert. When weathered there is limonite staining on surface. No fossil inclusions. Deposits occur as discontinuous lenses and nodules within calcareous shale and non-marine sandstone.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Series- Upper Pennsylvanian, Group- Monongahela, Member- Uniontown
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Sewickley, Allepo Township, Westmoreland County, PA; DeLarme Map 57-D4
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Meadowcroft Rockshelter, 36WH297
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Sewichley, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 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: A599528-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone