Fort Payne Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 17 May 1996
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Kennth B. Tankersley
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1251 (Fort Payne Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1251 (Fort Payne Chert)
label: Notes
content: Ft. Payne chert, also known as Black Buffalo, Eggner's Ferry, Horse Mountain, Muldraugh (Tankersley), Rotordore, Tishomingo, or Wells Creek Cater, is a coarse to very fine (often glossy when heat treated) chert. It is tan, yellow brown, black, brownish black, olive black, blue-gray, bluish-white or white when raw. It is orange, red, maroon, dark gray, or light red when heat treated. It is tan, brown, pale yellowish-brown, or yellow platy pourish chert when weathered. It has Cryptocrystalline and chalcedonic quartz, dolomite, calcite, and sponge spicules inclusions. Chalcedonic silica occurs as irregularly-shaped spherulites, brownish organic matter, iron oxides, carbonate rhombs, unaltered pyrite and crinoids.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Series- Lower Mississippian, Group- Osage, Form- Fort Payne, Member- Muldraugh
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Illinois, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Used during all cultural periods.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Georgia, 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: A598198-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone