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  • Pullenrock
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    Hopefully Cliff is already working on it..I wonder now what isnt chert?...Seems like agate wouldnt be,Or petrified wood..

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  • Paleolution
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    I am also confused about the term "chert".  The local source here is called a chert.  But I have found it with layers of moss agate, so is it really an agate, and they just call it chert???

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  • Pullenrock
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    Maybe in the future girl,maybe our great great grandchildren will trade..Im guessing everything is chert just bout unh?

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  • kyheadhunter
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    huh? I know I'm a bit slow but are you guys just messin with me or what....I'm getting really confused again...my brain hurts. Are you saying alibates are also a form of chert and chert is really flint?
    Well if it's all the same thing...then why the heck do we care so much about what it's made out of...it's all a form of alibate-chert-flint anyway...am I right?
    Hey pullen I'll trade ya some broken cherty flint alibates for that box of arrowheads your holding there...wanta?
       :woohoo:
    jane

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  • Pullenrock
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    Believe me Im still learning also..

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  • Wildhorse
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    Seems to come in different shades of colors? This point was found on the Columbia and I have not heard of that material here before. That is me OK I am not into materials a lot until lately on this forum.

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  • Pullenrock
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    I think you done well in your research..Heres a box of alibates.. Does seem close to the same though..

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  • Wildhorse
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    How about this one. I was told it may be alabates and when I searched that it seems to be a lot like chert. What about that?

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  • ksrocks
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    That is some good stuff,I guess I have some really nice chert -and- flint pieces like everyone else. Good explanation on the diffrence Jon -and- Cliff, thanks much!!!

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  • Pullenrock
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    Whoa cliff.This just bout got me cleared up on it chert..is flint chert? Oh i see flint is chert!..thanks man

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  • CliffJ
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    From Rowe's Glossary-
    CHERT - 1.a rock resembling flint and consisting essentially of a large amount
    of fibrous chalcedony with smaller amounts of cryptocrystalline quartz and
    amorphous silica. 2. A very fine grained rock formed in ancient ocean sediments.
    It often has a semi-glassy finish and is usually white, pinkish, brown, gray, or
    blue-gray in color. It can be shaped into arrowheads by chipping.
    FLINT (1) - A hard but brittle microcrystalline form of quartz found in
    sedimentary limestone or in chalk deposits. True flint occurs only in the Old
    World.
    FLINT (2) - Any kind of stone which can be flaked.
    So, despite the popular name of flint put on better cherts, it is all just chert here in the US. Some US collectors think that the only true flint in the US is Edwards Plateau chert, and others think that the Flint River GA deposits are flint. However, technically they are all chert so you cannot go wrong calling most materials by the name of chert.

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  • kyheadhunter
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    Can't say I blame her...if you fed me I'd hang around too! (Just kidding...just kidding folks... I don't beg for food...don't want anyone to get the wrong idea on here! Good gosh! LOL)
    Hope you and Ms. Kity had a rockin good Christmas! 

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  • Pullenrock
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    shes just one of many critters out here on the farm..some reason they all takes to me..Most likely cause i feed them unh?

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  • kyheadhunter
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    Thanks Pullenrock... for taking the time to post some pics to help me understand what chert looks like...this helps more than any description could. Think I'm beginning to get it.
      BTW Ms. Kitty is way too cute. She looks very bored with the whole discussion. She wants you to just put them things down so she can curl up on your lap and take a nap.
    Thanks!
    jane

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  • Pullenrock
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    Like edwards plateau chert looks like flint to me..Its a higher grade chert..

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