Lockatong Argillite
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 15 Jan 1993
name: label: Collector
content: Brad Koldehoff
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1394 (Lockatong Argillite): Provenience includes modern quarry. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
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content: L-1394 (Lockatong Argilllite):
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content: Lockatong Argillite is gray to black argillite. It is shades of brown, red-brown, gray, black, black and maroon, or white. It becomes gray or bleached light tan when weathered. It has a smooth to medium texture. May have inclusions of pyrite cubes, common small pits filled with authigenic, generated on the spot minerals. May also have small, irregular, clear, glassy analcime anhedra inclusions. Deposits include large blocks of regional contact metamorphic shale, tabular or platy.
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content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Triassic, Series- Upper Triassic, Group- Newark, Form- Lockatong
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content: Location remarks: Operating quarry, Point Pleasant, Bucks County, PA; Walnut Creek, Hunterdon Co., NJ; Extensive exposures along Mill, Neshaminy, and Dyers Creeks, Bucks Co., PA; Outcrops in Gaddis Run Valley, Bucks Co., PA; Southeastern PA; Delaware River Valley; Ralph Stover State Park and by traveling Rt. 32; Byram, NJ; Point Pleasant , PA.
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content: Archaeology remarks: 28GL111, 28GL205, 28GL206, 28GL209, 28GL210; Pidcock sites (36BU154 and 155) located 2 miles south of New Hope, PA, within Washington Crossing State Park produced Lackawaxen, Vasburg-like, Fox Creek-like, Madison projectile points; Koens-Crispin site in Burlington Co.,NJ
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Bucks 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: A599385-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone