Attica Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 17 May 1996
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Kennth B. Tankersley
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1225 (Attica Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1225 (Attica Chert)
label: Notes
content: Attica Chert is also known as Indiana Greenstone, Independence, Sugar Creek Vermillion, Wabash, Wabash Green, Independence Green, Attica/St. Clair, Vermillion, Carol County or Grand Chain. It is a greenish blue gray, shades of gray, grayish gray, soft tones of green, and/or green and white banded. It may have inclusions of Chalcedonic quartz filled cavities or "healed" fractures. It has a coarse to very smooth, fine grained, or glossy texture. Deposits include gravel in the Wabash River south of the sources listed above, tabular, bedded, residium rom ridge along the Wabash River. SEE ALSO: INDEPENDENCE, INDIANA GREENSTONE
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Stage- Valmeyeran, Group - Borden, Form - Edwardsville
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Along Wabash River, near Attica, Fountain Co., IN; west-central Indiana counties of Warren and Fountain as outcrops; Residuum in fields on both sides of Turkey Run. Davis Township. Fountain Co., IN; Sugar Creek, Montgomery-Boone counties, IN.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Attica, a nonlocal chert, used at the Bostrom Paleo-Indian site in Illinois.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Fountain County, Indiana, 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: A598345-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone