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Cherts vs Cherty - What's the difference?

cherts | cherty |

As a noun cherts

is plural of chert.

As an adjective cherty is

containing chert.

cherts

English

Noun

(head)

    • cherty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (geology, mineralogy) Containing chert.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879, author=James Stevenson, title=Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Charles Darwin, title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty , in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=February 6, Chia-Wei Li et al., Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures, Science citation
    • , passage=It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite. }}