Wassataquoik Chert
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 10 Nov 1996
name: label: Collector
content: Bob Weber
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1337 (Wassataquoik Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1337 (Wassataquoik Chert): Delorme #51-E4, 1988.
label: Notes
content: Wassataquoik Chert can be dark gray to black, medium to dark gray, red varieties, or greenish-gray in color. When weathered it becomes white with iron oxide staining and develops rusty porous weathered surfaces that are calcareous. It has a smooth, opaque texture with fractures conchoidally often angular leaving very sharp edges, somewhat brittle. Deposits are bedded.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Form- Correlates with Normanskill
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: On the banks of the East Branch of the Penobscot River and Wassataquoik stream near its confluence with the Penobscot, south of Lower Shin Pond and Lunksoos Lake, northeast of Millinocket Lake, east of Katahdin Lake, Soldiertown Township, T3R7 WELS, T4R7 Wels, T4R8 WELS, Penobscot County, Maine.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Penobscot 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: A598505-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone