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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- is customarily restricted to hard, co****ly banded, non-banded, and non-cherty sedimentary rocks of post-Precambrian age. The Precambrian deposits, which...
- Wyoming, and Montana. It is defined by its cherty, gray to pinkish limestone, calcareous siltstone, and cherty sandstone. The rocks in this formation formed...
- System. Several of the limestone formations in the Kansas City Group are cherty. Invertebrate marine fossil in Cement City Limestone, Dewey Formation, Upper...
- pre-Cambrian up to present day. During Phanerozoic, terrigenous, volcanogenic and cherty-carbonate sediments containing in abundance graptolites, bivalves, brachiopods...
- 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...