Marshall Mediocrity Chert (AKA Burlington)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Mar 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Bob Hunt
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-336 (Marshall Mediocrity Chert): Direct collection from bedrock. Provenience includes roadcut. Not a collection for archaeological context. Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, modern flint-knappers' work, and heat-treated specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-336 (Marshall Mediocrity Chert)
label: Notes
content: (Information obtained from Burlington Type Sheet) Burlington Chert is also known as Avon, Bowling Green, Crescent, Crescent Hills, Crescent Quarry, Grimes Hill, High Ridge, Hinkson Creek, Noix Creek, Hominy Creek, Iowa Burlington, Kampsville, Marshall, Marshall Mediocrity, Republic, St. Augustine, or Whetstone Creek. It is red, blue, green, white, brown, gray, pink, purple, yellow, tan, tan with plain, mixed, mottled, or striped colors. It becomes white, light gray, red, or pink when heat-treated. It becomes white to brownish gray when weathered. I may have Grapolite fossil inclusions of the Dendroidea order. It has a calcareous, coarse to very fine grain, vitreous, chalcedony-like texture. Deposits include nodular and tabular. SEE ALSO: AVON CHERT
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Burlington Type Sheet) Geology: Epoch- Mississippian, Series- Middle Mississippian, Stage- Osagean; Valmeyeran in Illinois, Form- Burlington Limestone
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content: Location remarks: (Information obtained from Burlington Type Sheet) Outcrops in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas; Hinkson Creek, Columbia, Boone Co., MO.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Burlington Type Sheet) Used from Paleo to late Woodland
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Marshall, Saline County, Missouri, 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: A598683-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone