Burlington Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 2000
name: label: Collector
content: Don Dickson
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1662 (Burlington Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and modern flint knappers' work.
label: Notes
content: L-1662 (Burlington Chert): These specimens represent a "rare" variety of Burlington Formation, Mississippian System Chert. Rarity due to smoothness.
label: Notes
content: Burlington Chert is also known as Avon, Bowling Green, Crescent, Crescent Hills, Crescent Quarry, Grimes Hill, High Ridge, Hinkson Creek, Noix Creek, Hominy Creek, Iowa Burlington, Kampsville, Marshall, Marshall Mediocrity, Republic, St. Augustine, or Whetstone Creek. It is red, blue, green, white, brown, gray, pink, purple, yellow, tan, tan with plain, mixed, mottled, or striped colors. It becomes white, light gray, red, or pink when heat-treated. It becomes white to brownish gray when weathered. I may have Grapolite fossil inclusions of the Dendroidea order. It has a calcareous, coarse to very fine grain, vitreous, chalcedony-like texture. Deposits include nodular and tabular. SEE ALSO: AVON CHERT
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Series- Middle Mississippian, Stage- Osagean; Valmeyeran in Illinois, Form- Burlington Limestone
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Outcrops in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas; Hinkson Creek, Columbia, Boone Co., MO.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Used from Paleo to late Woodland
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Collins, St. Clair County, Missouri, 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: A598696-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone