Ramah Quartzite
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1990
name: label: Collector
content: R. M. Gramly
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-969 (Ramah Quartzite): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-969 (Ramah Quartzite)
label: Notes
content: (Information obtained from Ramah Type Sheet) Ramah is also known as Ramah Chalcedony, Ramah Quartzite, Ramah Chert, Tunnuyakh, and Labrador Stone (?). It is a quartzite or siliceous rock. It is gray, greenish gray, translucent white with light gray to dark banding, translucent black, or black. It can have tiny black spots or be smoky in areas which darken considerably as the material thickens. It has pyrite and oxidized pyrite crystal inclusions. It has a smooth, grainy texture. Deposits includes residuum.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Ramah Type Sheet) Geology: Epoch- Precambrian, Series- Aphebian, Group- Ramah, Form- Menihek
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: (Information obtained from Ramah Type Sheet) Ramah Bay, Torngat region, northeast Labrador, Canada; Around Quartzite Mountain in latitude 59 degrees N and extends southeastward toward Saglek Fjord; Torngat Mountains, Labrador.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Ramah Type Sheet) Boreal Archaic; Used by Maritime Archaic people; A triangular point of Ramah Quartzite was found on the beach at Hammonasett State Park, Connecticut by Donald T. Holland, N.Y.C. in 1962; biface distal fragment, Kilmer site, Steuben Co., Ny
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 7
place: label: Place
content: Labrador, Newfoundland, 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: A598992-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone