Cowhouse Chert
Description of Physical Characteristics:
Color:
Cowhouse Chert is nodules eroded from
many different formations producing a Varity of chert types. The
most common color is white ranging to gray or brown. Speckles,
mottled, streaking, and fossiliferous hash commonly occurs as well as
novaculite and petrified wood. Types include: white, dark gray,
light gray, brown flecked, fossiliferous light brown, banded and
mottled, mottled with flecks, shell hash, streaked, two toned,
novaculite, and petrified wood.
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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Cowhouse Chert is associated with the Cowhouse gravels occurring as
nodules in the Cowhouse drainage system, Texas.
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