Collingwood (AKA Fossil Hill) Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Nov 1988
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-916 (Collingwood Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-916 (Collingwood Chert)
label: Notes
content: Collingwood Chert is also known as Fossil Hill, Grey County, Amabel, Bruce, or Manitoulin. It is white, bluish white, gray, or commonly speckled "salt and pepper" by black iron or manganese oxides and clear quartz crystals. When weathered it is patinated white, sometimes stained buff or shades of yellow or red. It has brachiopods, silicified and colonial corals, bryozoans, and echinoderm inclusions. It has a medium to very fine texture. Deposits are interbedded with host dolomite beds.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Silurian, Series- Middle Silurian, Form- Fossil Hill
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Grey County, Ontario, Canada
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Parkhill and Thedford Paleo-Indian sites in Ontario, Canada; Vdora site, 1982, and Fisher site, 1983, by Peter Storck.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 21
place: label: Place
content: Collingwood Township, Grey County, Ontario, 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: A599233-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone