Paoli Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: Not given
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-255 (Paoli Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens
label: Notes
content: L-255 (Paoli Chert)
label: Notes
content: Paoli Chert is also known as Carter, Carter Cave, Carter Wedge, Elkhorn, Haney, Newman, Paoli-Beaver Bend. It is light olive gray, light bluish gray, pale brown, brown, caramel, cream, white, maroon, red, or red streaked in color. It becomes shades of red when heat-treated. It has a white cortex when weathered. It has a very smooth texture that becomes glossy when heat-treated. Inclusions include cryptocrystalline quartz, dolomite, hematite, and chalcedonic quartz-filled cavities and various fossils. Deposits include tabular, nodular and bedded. SEE ALSO: CARTER
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Series- Upper Mississippian, Form- Newman Limestone, Paoli-Beaver Bend.
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Carter, Greenup, Lewis and other counties of northeastern Kentucky including Powell.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: Paleoindian
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 8
place: label: Place
content: Carter County, Kentucky, 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: A598447-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone