Definition of Cherty. Meaning of Cherty. Synonyms of Cherty

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Definition of Cherty

Cherty
Cherty Chert"y, a. Like chert; containing chert; flinty.

Meaning of Cherty from wikipedia

- Chert (/tʃɜːrt/) is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide...
- Pre-Christian Slavic writing is a hypothesized writing system that may have been used by the Slavs prior to Christianization and the introduction of the...
- overlain by 500 to 600 feet (150 to 180 m) of dolomite, often sandy, silty or cherty, forming the Elvins Group and the Potosi and Eminence formations. Withdrawal...
- composed of carbonates, chiefly dolomite, with some limestone. There are also cherty inclusions as well as thin beds of sandstone. The Knox lies beneath a unconformity...
- is customarily restricted to hard, co****ly banded, non-banded, and non-cherty sedimentary rocks of post-Precambrian age. The Precambrian deposits, which...
- breccia consists of fragments of white to dark gray cherty material, quartz-rich sandstone, diagenetic cherty nodules, and stromatolitic limestone and is intensively...
- grained to medium grained limestone and dolomite with cherty inclusions. To almost pure chert. The cherty facies are the Clear Cr**** and Gr****y **** formations...
- Limestone Chanute Shale (sandy) Drum Limestone (cherty) Cherryvale Shale (cherty) Dennis Limestone (cherty) Galesburg Shale (sandy) S****e Limestone Ladore...
- states. The nearly level to rolling Springfield Plateau is underlain by cherty limestone of the Mississippian Boone Formation and Burlington Limestone;...
- fragments found in rocks of the middle Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) age in the Cherty Freshwater Member of the Lulworth Formation in England and also the Angeac-Charente...