Calico Hills Jasper
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 19 Feb 1997
name: label: Collector
content: Todd Harrington
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1342 (Calico Hills Jasper):
label: Notes
content: L-1342 (Calico Hills Jasper)
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content: (Information obtained from Calico Type Sheet) Calico, also known as Calico Hills and Yermo Agate, is a chert, chalcedony, agate, jasper, or quartzite. It can be various colors depending on the material: white, red, blue, gray, yellow, brown, black. It becomes white, brown, or black when weathered. It is coarse, smooth, or very fine in texture. Deposits include alluvium.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Calico Type Sheet) Geology: Epoch-Pleistocene
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content: Location remarks: (Information obtained from Calico Type Sheet) Calico Hills is located on the Yermo alluvial fan in the Calico Mountains northeast of Barstow in the Mojave Desert, San Bernadino County, California.
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content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Calico Type Sheet) Calico Site, 7 Km northeast of the town of Yermo, in the central portion of the Mojave Desert, San Bernadino County, California
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Mojave Desert, San Bernadino County, California, 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: A598114-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone