Archeology

What We Found

Kansas Pipestone

Collected during the South Fork Big Nemaha survey by Joe Herman, '96.  River gravel reworked from glacial till, derived from Sioux formation.  Irregular clasts in river ...

Fossiliferous Limestone

River gravel derived from unknown formation of the Pennsylvanian System.  Tabular clasts in river gravel.  Collected during the South Fork Big Nemaha survey by Joe ...

River Gravel

River gravel reworked from glacial till, derived from an unknown formation of an unknown system. Pebbles and cobbles in river gravel. Collected by Joe Herman, South ...

Archean Banded Iron

River gravel reworked from glacial till, derived from an unknown formation of the Archean System.  Collected by Joe Herman, 4-21-96 as part of South Fork Big Nemaha ...

River Gravel

Numerous small white fossils inclusions. Collected during the South Fork Big Nemaha survey by Joe Herman, '96.   NSHS ID: 008PW25 State: ...

River Gravel

River gravel reworked from glacial till, derived from an unknown formation of the Archean System. Tabular clasts in river gravel. Laminar clevage with conchodial ...

Kimball Chert

Slip in box reads "Apparently from the Ogallala Formation and may be local version of Kimball Chert.  Probably outcrops elsewhere in Perkins and Chase Cos., Nebraska and ...

Siliceous Mudstone

NSHS ID: 013RH25 State: Nebraska County: Richardson Lithic Type: Siliceous Mudstone Geology: Cottonwood Formation, Council Grove Group, Wolfcampian Series, ...

River Gravel

River gravel reworked from glacial till, derived from the Sioux formation. Tabular clasts in river gravel. Collected during the South Fork Big Nemaha survey by Joe ...

Kansas Pipestone

Collected during the South Fork Big Nemaha survey by Joe Herman, '96.  River gravel reworked from glacial till, derived from Sioux formation.  Irregular clasts in river ...

Cottonwood Chert

River gravel derived from Cottonwood fromation of the Permain System.  Numerous large white inclusions.  Pebbles and cobbles in the bed of Four Mile Creek.  Collected ...

Cottonwood Chert

Regoltih near surface.  White inclusions.  Collected during the South Fork Big Nemaha survey by Joe Herman, '96.   NSHS ID: 001RH25 State: ...

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