Jeffersonville Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 17 May 1996
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Kennth B. Tankersley
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1204 (Jeffersonville Chert): Provenience includes roadcut. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1204 (Jeffersonville Chert)
label: Notes
content: Jeffersonville Chert is also known as Airport, Boyle, Camden, Cedar Valley, Cochrane, Coffee Creek, Falls, Fredonia, Hopkinsville, Kentucky Blue, Mammoth Cave, Marble Hill, Munfordville, Root Beer, Root River, Scipio, Solon, Sonora, or Ste. Genevieve. It is olive gray (5Y 4/1), dark gray (N3), yellowish gray (5Y 8/1), or light greenish gray (5GY 8/1). When weathered it becomes yellowish gray (5Y 8/1) or white/light gray. It has inclusions of crinoid columnella, brachiopods, corals, natiloids, fenestrate bryozoans, tentaculitids, and pyrite. It has a brittle texture. Deposits include nodular and bedded.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Lower Devonian, Stage- Erian, Group- Muscatatuck, Form- Jeffersonville/North Vernon
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Southeastern Indiana, northcentral and central Kentucky; Falls of the Ohio River
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Louisville, Kentucky, 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: A598480-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone