Attica Chert
Object Details
- Collector
- Dr. Kennth B. Tankersley
- Donor Name
- Estate Of John D. Holland
- L-1225 (Attica Chert): Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
- L-1225 (Attica Chert)
- Attica Chert is also known as Indiana Greenstone, Independence, Sugar Creek Vermillion, Wabash, Wabash Green, Independence Green, Attica/St. Clair, Vermillion, Carol County or Grand Chain. It is a greenish blue gray, shades of gray, grayish gray, soft tones of green, and/or green and white banded. It may have inclusions of Chalcedonic quartz filled cavities or "healed" fractures. It has a coarse to very smooth, fine grained, or glossy texture. Deposits include gravel in the Wabash River south of the sources listed above, tabular, bedded, residium rom ridge along the Wabash River. SEE ALSO: INDEPENDENCE, INDIANA GREENSTONE
- Geology remarks: Epoch- Mississippian, Stage- Valmeyeran, Group - Borden, Form - Edwardsville
- Location remarks: Along Wabash River, near Attica, Fountain Co., IN; west-central Indiana counties of Warren and Fountain as outcrops; Residuum in fields on both sides of Turkey Run. Davis Township. Fountain Co., IN; Sugar Creek, Montgomery-Boone counties, IN.
- Archaeology remarks: Attica, a nonlocal chert, used at the Bostrom Paleo-Indian site in Illinois.
- Record Last Modified
- 22 Nov 2019
- Specimen Count
- 5
- Accession Date
- 29 Dec 2016
- Collection Date
- 17 May 1996
- Accession Number
- 2071475
- USNM Number
- A598345-0
- Object Type
- Stone
- Place
- Fountain County, Indiana, United States, North America
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- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_12615869
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3389628d6-0ba3-4a7a-b101-1065c98ea25b
