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What does chert mean?

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  1. (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
  2. (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.
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Shale adjacent to ironstone is ferruginized, strongly foliated and complexly folded where it contains chert layers.
The sedimentary lenses are composed of limestone, sandstone, siltstone, mudstone, shale, chert and well-bedded calci-turbidite.
Lead ore, pig lead, timber and chert stones from Flintshire were the other significant cargoes.
Hopewellian chert tool industries consist of three discrete manufacturing trajectories, resulting in tools made on cores, flakes, and blades.
Geologically the axes from the New Guinea Highlands comprise thermally metamorphosed basalt, chert and greywacke depending on quarry source.
The vast majority of chert tools found at Hopewell sites are not made from blades, but from reduction flakes derived from multidirectional cores.

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