Lithic Type Specimen: MRS-25 (Mississippian Reed Springs, Variety 25)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Aug 2012
label: Collection Date
content: 1970 to 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Don R. Dickson
label: Donor Name
content: Don R. Dickson
notes: label: Notes
content: MRS-25 (Mississippian Reed Springs, Variety 25): MRS Variety 25 (tentative) This is a medium to fine grained tan chert. Sometimes some dark brown, bluish brown lines or, rarely, a light blue spot can be found in the chert. The variety comes in large pieces and flakes excellently. The problem has been to relate this chert to a geological stratum. In a stream bed below the hillside producing the tan chert one finds a bed of white chert which seems to be Keokuk. And yet the tan chert has all of the charicteristics of Reeds Spring. Two things are possible. 1. Both cherts formed in highly irregular undersea terrain. 2. A fault line runs between the hillside which produces the tan chert and the stream where the Keokuk qhert is found. The area has not been mapped in detail, and so the tentative designation.
label: Notes
content: Reeds Spring (Tentative)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Jun 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Delaware County, Oklahoma, 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: 2060436
label: USNM Number
content: A587189-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone