Definition of Chert. Meaning of Chert. Synonyms of Chert

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Definition of Chert

Chert
Chert Chert, n. [Ir. ceart stone, perh. akin to E. crag.] (Min.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.
chert
Hornstone Horn"stone`, n. (Min.) A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

Meaning of Chert from wikipedia

- Chert (/tʃɜːrt/) is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide...
- 57°20′12″N 002°50′29″W / 57.33667°N 2.84139°W / 57.33667; -2.84139 The Rhynie chert is a Lower Devonian sedimentary deposit exhibiting extraordinary fossil...
- Mill Cr**** chert is a type of chert found in Southern Illinois and heavily exploited by members of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE). Artifacts...
- white chert. Facies 3, which overlies facies 2, consists largely of centimeter-layered chert. The layered chert consists of white-gray layered chert and...
- microorganisms permineralized in 3.465-billion-year-old Australian Apex chert rocks. However, the evidence for the biogenicity of these microstructures...
- del Consell, pel qual s’aprova el canvi de denominació del municipi de Chert/Xert per la forma exclusiva en valencià de Xert. [2014/6338] DOCV. Generalitat...
- The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and northwestern...
- is made up of three formations, the Gr****y **** Chert, the Backbone Limestone and Clear Cr**** Chert. It is Lower Devonian in age. Eastward the group...
- sediment or sedimentary rock. Examples include pyrite nodules in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale. Normally,...
- and William H. Lang in 1917. The species is known only from the Rhynie chert in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it grew in the vicinity of a silica-rich...