Boone County, Indiana, United States, North America
Accession Date:
29 Dec 2016
Collection Date:
Sep 1988
Notes:
L-216 (Sugar Creek Chert): Unknown collection procedure. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, and naturally-weathered specimens.
L-216 (Sugar Creek Chert)
(Information obtained from the Attica type sheet) 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 coerces listed above, tabular, bedded, residuum rom ridge along the Wabash River. SEE ALSO: INDEPENDENCE, INDIANA GREENSTONE
Geology remarks: (Information obtained from the Attica type sheet) Geology: Epoch- Mississippian, Stage- Valmeyeran, Group - Borden, Form - Edwardsville
Location remarks: (Information obtained from the Attica type sheet) 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: (Information obtained from the Attica type sheet) Attica, a nonlocal chert, used at the Bostrom Paleoindian site in Illinois.
