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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2011, 07:22:58 pm »
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I know little about knapping but have seen some nice points out of that black and white stuff so yeah it has value.

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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2011, 07:42:24 pm »
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It's hard to do but if you take ya time you can make some great tools from it, and tools that have been found go back 10000 yrs or more

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the out side is white coz its calcium deposits and all the black is compressed sea critters some you can see with the naked eye
is it ok to ues that word naked dang i said it twice now it's too late, any way thats a good place to look for fossils, coz you get big ones in it too and they go back millions of years,

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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2011, 09:01:50 pm »
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So what is the Difference in just plain flint and this chert ??

Does Flint not have black in it also?

I havent got a clue thats why i am asking.

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« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2011, 10:17:16 pm »
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There are large expanses of chert in Borneo and at the dig sites where ancient settlements used to be, tools made from chert have been found. I think that chert and flint are the same thing, just that flint is the black colored version of chert.

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« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2011, 10:23:07 pm »
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Strictly speaking, the term "flint" is reserved for varieties of chert which occur in chalk and marly limestone formations. Among non-geologists (in particular among archaeologists), the distinction between "flint" and "chert" is often one of quality - chert being lower quality than flint. This usage of the terminology is prevalent in America and is likely caused by early immigrants who imported the terms from England where most true flint (that found in chalk formations) was indeed of better quality than "common chert" (from limestone formations).

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« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2011, 10:26:04 pm »
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the thing that made me say it was chert is because of how small the fassits are and i maybe wrong here but flint does'nt chip so easily
 and it comes in colors ranging from light brown to black,??
and i've never seen flint that big
what do you think

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« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2011, 10:29:27 pm »
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i've never seen flint that big




I have seen flint nodules as big as small cars up in the Delaware bay  area.

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« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2011, 10:40:15 pm »
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Wow just think what you could make out of it, I have'nt seen any much bigger than a human skull

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« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2011, 07:58:47 am »
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That gentlemen is called chert it's like flint and hard to tell apart and like flint it is made up of millions upon millions of tiny sea creatures , It is the stuff old stone tools are made of and all throughout the areas of KENT and SUSSEX in the UK it is everywhere,
axes scrapers knives and other cutting tools are made from that and flint, OK


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there is no difference in chert and flint.
Flint is just the common name of chert.
It is like saying snail and gastropod.

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« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2011, 09:21:04 am »
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