Color:  Slaven Chert ranges from a brown to a grayish green color.

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Silica Fabrics / Fossils: Conodont fauna, brachiopods, tentaculitids, osctracodes, sponge spicules, and radiolarian

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Notes:  Difficult to distinguish from Valmy or Vinni Chert
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution Comments:
Slaven Chert is associated with the Slaven Chert Formation of Nevada.  Primarily occurs as beds up to 14 cm thick in the southwestern and northwestern Roberts Mountains, northern Shoshone Range, northern Adobe Range, Tuscarora Mountains, Cortez Range, and Taylor Canyon in Nevada.  Named for exposures in Slaven Canyon in the Shoshone Range.