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USS Flint (AE-32/T-AE-32) is a Kilauea-class ammunition ship of the United States Navy, and was named after the sparking rock flint (not, as is commonly thought, the city of Flint, Michigan). [2] Flint was constructed at the Ingalls Nuclear Shipbuilding Division, Litton Industries , Inc., Pascagoula, Mississippi .
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A rockhound's tools: a geologist's hammer and loupe. The amateur geologist's principal piece of equipment is the geologist's hammer. This is a small tool with a pick-like point on one end, and a flat hammer on the other. The hammer end is for breaking rocks, and the pick end is mainly used for prying and digging into crevices.
Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument is a U.S. national monument in the state of Texas. For thousands of years, people came to the red bluffs above the Canadian River for flint, vital to their existence. Demand for the high-quality, rainbow-hued flint is reflected in the distribution of Alibates flint through the Great Plains and beyond.
Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.
Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, [1] [2] categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely used to make stone tools and start fires. Flint occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones.
Fred Flintstone's Memory Match (1994), by Coastal Amusements for video arcades; The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock (1994), by Taito for Super Nintendo Entertainment System; The Flintstones (1994–95), by Ocean Software for Game Boy, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Channel
USS Flint (CL-97) was a modified Atlanta-class light cruiser, sometimes referred to as an "Oakland-class". She was named after the city of Flint, Michigan . She was launched on 25 January 1944 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation of San Francisco, California , sponsored by Mrs. R. A. Pitcher.