Windfall Chert











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Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Windfall Chert is primarily a light to dark gray and may range from homogenous to banded or stripped with light and darker grays.  Brown, green, and white also occurs.
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Silica Fabrics / Fossils:  Abundant trilobite and brachiopod fragments
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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Windfall Chert is associated with the Windfall Formation of Nevada.  Named for exposures in Windfall Canyon near Eureka, outcroppings of beds, nodules, and lenses also occur in the southern Ruby Mountains, White Pine Range, Horse Range, Grant Range where chert nodules and mottled chocolate brown cherty dolomite occurs, Schell Creek Range occurring as beds and lenses, and the Elk Mountains.
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