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Definition of Cherts
1. chert [n] - See also: chert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherts
Literary usage of Cherts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Results of Primary Triangulation and Primary Traverse: Fiscal Year 1904-05 by Samuel Stinson Gannett (1905)
"The cherts are sharply folded and much faulted, but are not so much altered as
... The contorted cherts that « >ccur at numerous localities along the shores ..."
2. The Geology of the Coama-Guayama District, Porto Rico by Edwin Thomas Hodge (1920)
"cherts The cherts are of varied colors, a condition which is dependent upon ...
Unde scope the genesis of the red and green cherts show that at li nary ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1895)
"The Mullion Island cherts consist of easily recognised bands of mostly black
flint-like rock, generally reticulated with thin but conspicuous white quartz ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1907)
"The cherts here are finely bedded, and there is a face of 70 feet. ... The cherts
are succeeded by fissile shales, which are also seen in the road by some ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1903)
"GENESIS OF CERTAIN cherts. BY CHARLES R. KEYES. As regards origin, the cherts
which occur so abundantly throughout the limestones of the lower carboniferous ..."
6. The Journal of Geology by University of Chicago Department of Geology and Paleontology (1905)
"cherts.—Lenses and irregular masses of radiolarian chert are very characteristic
of the lower series. Along the coast quadrangles they may be more abundant ..."
7. Transactions by Royal Geological Society of Cornwall (1895)
"Our cherts in Cornwall —possibly of the same age, certainly of the same ...
"We may of course find such cherts in other geological systems in Cornwall. ..."
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