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  • The upper beds of the third limestone are often dark colored, and contain layers of black chert in nodules.
  • Chert nodules abound.
  • However, in comparison to group 4, radiolarian chert is virtually absent.
  • The pieces of gray chert were found on the tourist path below slopes too steep for human habitation.
  • Chert grits, some small cavities, quartz dust in the clay matrix.
  • Figure 5. the aging process of casa montero's cherts: x-ray diffraction pattern of opal and opaline chert obtained from the same nodule.
  • Chert fragments, with a few very small to large cavities from former grits.
  • In fewer instances, layers of the limestone seem to be converted into white chert, called china stone.
  • Chert cobbles belonging to the terrace deposits.
  • Chert pebbles becoming more angular with depth ( carr and blackley 1969 ).
  • Chert flake was visible at the surface of the feature.

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