Meadow Mountain Chert












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Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Meadow Mountain Chert is a mottled blue gray with white streaks present.

Texture: 
Fine grain

Luster: waxy

Translucency:  Opaque

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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

Meadow Mountain Chert has primary quarry (site 18GA25) in Garnett County, Maryland.

The associated formation was not mentioned, but in this area the Foreknob Formation produces a bluish gray to olive gray mudstone / siltstone that appears similar to this material.

 

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