Manganiferous and Ferruginous Chert in Perry and Lewis Counties, Tennessee
Description:
From abstract: Perry and Lewis Counties, east of the Tennessee River, in west-middle Tennessee, are underlain by nearly flat-lying rocks of Paleozoic age, with Mississippian cherty limestones forming the greater part of the surface of the western
Highland Rim Plateau ridges. Near the summits of the ridges there is a fairly definite horizon in the chert that contains manganese and iron oxides in varying degrees of concentration. Weathering of the mineralized chert has produced
widespread float o…
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Date:
1943
Creator:
Burchard, Ernest F.
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