Munsungen Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1 Jun 1985 to 2 Jun 1985
name: label: Collector
content: C. D. Cox
label: Collector
content: Betty Knop
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-261 (Munsungen Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-261 (Munsungen Chert)
label: Notes
content: Munsungan Chert is also known as Christmas Tree, Munsungen, Munsungan, and Willard's Brook. It is grayish red (5R 4/2 to 10 R 4/2), dark gray (N3) to grayish black (N2), medium gray (N5) to medium dark gray (N4), grayish black (N2) to black (N1) laminae, mottled greenish black (5GY 2/2) to medium dark gray (N4) in color. When weathered it becomes brown to black. It may have radiolaria inclusions. It has very fined grained texture. Deposits include uniformly bedded and laminated layers, layers interbedded with volcaniclastic sandstones, floats, interbeds, bedded, and nodular. SEE ALSO: MUNSUNGEN
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Cambrian-Ordovician, Series- Middle Ordovician, group- Munsungan, Form- Munsungan Lake
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Crops out in the vicinity of Munsungan Lake in the Spider Lake and Millinocket Lake quadrangles; Norway Bluff area; Norway Bluff, thoroughfare, Willard Ridge, Munsungan Ridge localities; all in Piscataquis County, Maine.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleoindian, Windy City site, Piscataquis Co., ME; Paleoindian, Michaud Site, Androscoggin Co., ME; Quarry area: Munsugan Lake, Norway Bluff, Norway Brook, Willard Brook, Willard Ridge.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 16
place: label: Place
content: Lake Munsungen, Piscataquis County, Maine, 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: A598510-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone