Dundee (AKA Selkirk) Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Sep 1994
name: label: Collector
content: J. D. Holland
label: Collector
content: Fred Moerschelder
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-880 (Dundee Chert): Provenience includes other (river pebbles). Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-880 (Dundee Chert)
label: Notes
content: Dundee Chert, also known as Selkirk, is a dirty white, light gray or black chert. Very fine grained bituminous limestone that weathers into gray fissile material. It has silicified brachiopods, solitary and colonial corals, crinoids, echinoderms, tentaculitids, and black stylolite inclusions. It has a grainy to smooth, crystalline, very crystalline, sub lithographic texture. Deposits include nodules and bands.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Devonian, Series- Middle Devonian, Stage- Erian, Group- Eifelian, Form- Dundee
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: W. Waterville Township, Lucas Co., Ohio; Campbell Quarry, NE 1/4 Sec. 36, T35N R2W, Cheboygan Co., Michigan; Quarry 1.5 km north of Nanticoke, Ontario; Norfolk Quarry 3 km north of Port Dover, Ontario; Vola Beach, Lake Erie, Ontario; outcrop above Dry Creek, 1.3 km north of Cheapside, Ontario; In and along Sandusk Creek, a short distance upstream from Lake Erie confluence, Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Ontario.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Saint Marie Among the Hurons site complex; Paleo period, northwestern Ohio; Heron Site, Late Woodland
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Rainham Township (not certain), Manticoke/Haldimand County, 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: A599260-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone