Cow Head Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 11 Nov 1996
name: label: Collector
content: Paul McEachen
label: Collector
content: Dan Long
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1329 (Cow Head Chert): Provenience includes beach deposit. Not a collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and surrounding matrix.
label: Notes
content: L-1329 (Cow Head Chert): West coast of Newfoundland
label: Notes
content: Cowhead Chert is a breccia chert. It has inclusions of carbonates (10%), sponge spicules (50% replaced by water), ostracods (replaced with chalcedonic quartz), black organic matter, pyrite throughout, and/or quartz seam. Deposits include breccia lying between much softer shaly sandstone or shale and in places grandly exposed in sea cliffs.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Ordovician, Series- Middle Ordovician, Form- Cow Head Limestone Breccia
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Banke District, West Coast, Newfoundland, 41 degrees 3-', 50 degrees 28'; Cow Head Peninsula, Stearing Island, White Rock Islets
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
place: label: Place
content: Newfoundland, Canada, 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: A598986-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone