Camden Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1984
name: label: Collector
content: Stan Ahler
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-319 (Camden Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and heat-treated specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-319 (Camden Chert)
label: Notes
content: Camden/Jeffersonville Chert is also known as Airport, Boyle, Cedar Valley, 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 may be chert or novaculite chert. It is white to buff in color. It becomes dull white when weathered. It has a smooth, not glossy texture. It may have highly fossiliferous inclusions, tiny quartz veins, dendritic inclusions, or quartz blotches well incorporated in the chert. Deposits include nodular and bedded.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Lower Devonian, Group- Onondaga, Form- Camden/Jeffersonville
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: According to Luttrell and Livesay that only known exposure of Camden chert in Kentucky is narrow northeast trending fault block a quarter of a mile long, 0.4 of a mile south of Little Bear Creek on the west side of the lake, and 4.5 miles above the Kentucky dam; Belmont, Tishomingo Co., Mississippi gravel pit tailings.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Sims site, in the lower Tennessee River, western Tennessee
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Tishomingo County, Mississippi, 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: A598615-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone