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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 (/ˈtʃɜːrt/) 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...
- 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...
- Clifty Limestone is very sandy, light blue to bluish grey. The Penters Chert is a Devonian geologic formation in the Ozark Plateaus of Arkansas. Its...
- microorganisms permineralized in 3.465-billion-year-old Australian Apex chert rocks. However, the evidence for the biogenicity of these microstructures...
- The Huntersville Chert or Huntersville Formation is a Devonian geologic formation in the Appalachian region of the United States. It is primarily composed...
- white chert. Facies 3, which overlies facies 2, consists largely of centimeter-layered chert. The layered chert consists of white-gray layered chert and...
- 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...
- 03694°W / 40.09750; -112.03694 Discovery 1960 (by Dale Green) Geology Chert Entrances 1 Difficulty Slippery Hazards Slippery and Tight Access Closed...
- The Princeton Chert is a fossil locality in British Columbia, Canada, which comprises an anatomically preserved flora of Eocene Epoch age, with rich species...