Cedar Valley (AKA Cochrane) Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 22 Feb 1996
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Anthony Romano
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1273 (Cedar Valley Chert): Provenience includes float/residuum. Not a collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material and modern flint-knappers' work.
label: Notes
content: L-1273 (Cedar Valley Chert): This variety of Cedar Valley chert looks like brown jasper. Cedar Valley chert also occurs across the Mississippi River in the Cedar Valley, Minn. Area.
label: Notes
content: Cedar Valley Chert is also known as Airport, Boyle, Camden, Cochrane, Coffee Creek, Falls, Fredonia, Hopkinsville, Jeffersonville, Kentucky Blue, Mammoth Cave, Marble Hill, Munfordville, Root Beer, Root River, Scipio, Solon, Sonora, or Ste. Genevieve. It is a white, gray, red, very light tan (IL), or brown jasper like (WI) chert or porcellanite. It may be mottled and banded. When heat treated, it becomes a dark cinnamon color. It has a limestone matrix when weathered. Deposited in limestone. SEE ALSO: AIRPORT, BOYLE, CAMDEN, COCHRANE, STE. GENEVIEVE
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Form- Cedar Calley Limestone
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content: Location remarks: Illinois; southeast Minnesota; LaCross, Wisconsin.
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content: Archaeology remarks: Scarcity of outcrops probably made it a relatively unimportant raw material resource in prehistoric times.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Buffalo/Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, 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: A599819-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone