Wantaque Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, United States, North America
Accession Date:
29 Dec 2016
Collection Date:
23 Mar 1995
Notes:
L-1147 (Lafayette Chert): Direct collection from outcrop. Provenience includes bedrock and prehistoric quarry. Collection from archaeological context. Collection includes raw material, outer surface, archaeological specimens, and naturally-weathered specimens.
L-1147 (Lafayette Chert)
(Information obtained from Citronelle Type Sheet) Citronelle Chert is also known as Bluff, Citronell, Citronella, Drift, Grover, Lafayette, Lagrange, Mounds, Mounds Gravel, Pickwick Gravel, Orange, Orange Sand, Upland. It may be various rock types, e.g.: basalt, greenstone, novaculite, quartzite, rhyolite and taconite. It is a pale cream novaculite, black, white quartzite, or pink quartzite. When heat-treated it becomes various colors depending on the lithic type; cherts becoming red, pink, orange, or yellow. When weathered it becomes various colors depending on the lithic type. Inclusions vary, depending on lithic type. Texture is usually smooth but also varies depending on lithic type.
Geology remarks: (Information obtained from Citronelle Type Sheet) Geology: Epoch- Pliocene, Form- Citronelle, Member- Lafayette
Location remarks: (Information obtained from Citronelle Type Sheet) Northwestern Mississippi; Louisiana; Avoyelles, Catahoula, Grant, LaSalle, and Rapids parishes in Louisiana; Alabama; Florida
Archaeology remarks: (Information obtained from Citronelle Type Sheet) n.d.
