Wiki Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: May 1990
name: label: Collector
content: Bill Fox
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-893 (Wiki Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, surrounding matrix, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-893 (Wiki Chert)
label: Notes
content: Wiki Chert, also known as Cup and Saucer or Manitoulin, is a white chert. When weathered it becomes light brown. It has fossiliferous inclusions. It has an opaque, fine grained texture that tends to be brittle. Deposits are bedded in limestone.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Silurian, Form- Fossil Hill
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Outcrops on the Wikwemikong Indian Reserve, Manitoulin Island, Georgian Bay, Ontario, and probably also Fitzwilliam Island; Manitoulin chert is a lateral extension of Wiki at Providence Bay, Manitoulin Island.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: Manitoulin Island, 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: A599256-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone