Name:

Cretaceous flint : 2D documentation

Type of object:

Geological sample

Archaelogical site:

Karsy - Turonian

Location- administrative unit (present):

Karsy, Opatów district, Świętokrzyskie province

Topographic location:

northeastern edging of Świętokrzyskie Mountains

Hydrographic network:

Vistula (Central part of the Vistula basin)

Object type:

siliceous rocks ; flint

Characteristics of the object- technique:

non

Characteristics of the object- raw material:

Lower Turonian

Characteristics of the object- colour:

10YR 4/1 5/1 4/2

Characteristics of the object- transparency:

0 - non - transparent

Characteristics of the object- fracture:

matt

Characteristics of the object- texture/facture:

nonhomogenous silica matrix; medium-cristalline; in the silica matrix numerous spots of up to 5 mm in diameter

Characteristics of the object- luster:

matt

Characteristics of the object- cortex:

rough, up to 5 mm thick

Characteristics of the object- transition:

blurred

Characteristics of the object- patina:

non

Characteristics of the object- colour of patine:

non

Characteristics of the object- width:

57 mm

Characteristics of the object- thickness:

20 mm

Characteristics of the object- length:

54 mm

Characteristics of the object- diameter:

57 mm

Characteristics of the object- weight:

57,1 g

Object description:

Turonian flint, similar to Ożarów flint. Flint concretions with diameter up to several centimeters. Grey in colour, sometimes spotted and banded. In the Karsy quarry, in the profile of the lower part, found are few levels with small concretions up to few centimeters in diameter. Towards the peak of this profile the levels become more numerous and more abundant. Layers take a lens-like form and are one meter thick, but the measurements of concretions contained in them are unchanged. Only in the upper parts of the profile bigger concretions are found with diameter reaching half a meter. In the upper part of the profile they are replaced by large tabelaric concretions of sedimentary charater, reaching several meters in diameter and several dozens centimeters thickness. They occur on few levels

Research Manager/ Creator of Collection:

Lech, Jacek

Accession number:

0230/FLI/PL

Chronology:

Turonian

Relation:

Atlas skał

Resource type:

Image

Detailed Resource Type:

Research data

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-SA 3.0 PL] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-SA 3.0 PL license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Operational Program Digital Poland, 2014-2020, Measure 2.3: Digital accessibility and usefulness of public sector information; funds from the European Regional Development Fund and national co-financing from the state budget. ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open