Bijou Hills Quartzite, Silicified Sandstone, & Silicified Sediment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Dec 2016
label: Collection Date
content: 1984
name: label: Collector
content: Darrel Fullmer
label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John D. Holland
notes: label: Notes
content: L-1657 (Bijou Hills Quartzite, Silicified Sandstone, & Silicified Sediment): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock. Not a collection from archaeological context. Known collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
label: Notes
content: L-1657 (Bijou Hills Quartzite, Silicified Sandstone, & Silicified Sediment.
label: Notes
content: Bijou Hills is also known as Bijou Hills Opalized Sandstone, Bijou Hills Quartzite, Bijou Hills Silicified Sandstone, or Bijou Hills Silicified Sedimet. It is a greenish gray to light green quartzite or silicified sediment. It can also be olive-green or greenish yellow with a sparling appearance due to a fracture traveling through the grains and chalcedonic cement. When weathered it becomes light brown or milky white. It has a grainy to smooth texture. Fine grained sediment cemented by opal and chalcedony. Grains are predominantly quartz and feldspar.
label: Notes
content: Geology remarks: Epoch- Pliocene, Form- Valentine/Ash Hollow, Member- Bijou Facies
label: Notes
content: Location remarks: Bijou Hills, Iona Hills, and other elevated uplands in Brule, Gregory, Iona Hills, and Charles Mix counties in southern South Dakota; Nebraska.
label: Notes
content: Archaeology remarks: n.d.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 Nov 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 21
place: label: Place
content: Chamberlain, Bru County, South Dakota, 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: A599593-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Stone