Skeleton Pond Chert










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Color:  Skeleton Pond Chert is a banded green and red.

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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Keleton Pond Chert is associated with the Skeleton Pond Tuff Formation of the Lushs Bight Group of Newfoundland.  Exposure occur around Skeleton Pond on the Springdale Peninsula in north central Newfoundland.
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