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Definition of Cherts

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 Cherts from wikipedia

- and organic matter.) However, cherts range from very pure cherts with over 99% silica content to impure nodular cherts with less than 65% silica content...
- places it at an early stage in the colonisation of land. Second, these cherts are famous for their exceptional state of ultrastructural preservation,...
- bedded cherts of the Towers formation belonged to one of three different and distinct stratigraphic units. The oldest of these bedded cherts are the...
- oxygen isotopes in Mesoarchean cherts has been helpful in reconstructing Mesoarchean surface temperatures. These cherts led researchers to draw an estimate...
- or pick is used to split chert nodules supported on the lap. Often the chert nodule will be split in half to create two cherts with a flat circular face...
- resemble the modern genus Allomyces. Holocarpic chytrid remains were found in cherts from Combres in central France that date back to the late Visean. These...
- and carbonate rhombs within chert. Fine-grain pyritization is the most common type of preservation in the Gunflint Cherts, in which ****ociation of fine-grained...
- Nakamura, K. (2003). "Origin and global tectonic significance of Early Archean cherts from the Marble Bar greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia"...
- 03694°W / 40.09750; -112.03694 Discovery 1960 (by Dale Green) Geology Chert Entrances 1 Difficulty Slippery Hazards Slippery and tight Access None (permanently...
- Ordovician. The red Strong Island Chert for instance rests on ophiolites. At the Silurian/Devonian boundary black cherts (locally called lydites or flinty...