Argentine Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 16 May 1998
name: label: Collector
content: Jack Holland
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1439 (Argentine Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes float/residuum. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, heat-treated specimens, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1439 (Argentine Chert): Winterset chert in the roadcut & also down over the bank by the "T" intersection. This chert, however, is the black variety with white calcite stringers. More preualent than a light type, see L-1441.
label: Notes
content: Argentine Chert is a tan, pale brown, light gray, dark reddish gray, or light gray mottled chert. It can also be very dark gray to nearly black containing scattered cream-colored fossil-bits. When weathered it becomes light brown. It may contain fusilinid fossils. It has a slightly gritty, opaque texture. Deposits include nodules in limestone.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pennsylvanian, Series- Upper Pennsylvanian, Stage- Missourian, Group- Kansas City/Zarah Subgroup, Form- Wyandotte, Member- Argentine Limestone
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Cass County, MO; Jackson County; Platte County, MO; Pottawattamie Co., western Iowa.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 13
place: label: Place
content: Kansas City (South of), Jackson 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: A598656-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone