Color: New Castle Chert ranges from a more common duller variegated light gray to a pale brown or a less common homogeneous bluish gray.

Texture:  Medium to Fine grain

Luster: Glossy

Silica Fabrics / Fossils: Bryzoan, crinoidal, and foraminifera

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Notes:  The Lexicon of Geographical Names list this as New Chapel Chert named after a small chapel in Clark Grant, Grant County Indiana where there is an outcropping.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution Comments:

New Castle Chert is associated with the Silver Creek Limestone formation of Indiana and Kentucky.  Primary outcroppings are located in Harrison, Clark and Floyd counties, Indiana, along the Ohio River