Slide: IL_1_63

Sio style. CAUTION: Section less than 30microns. Pyroxene grains (10%) are generally less than 0.3 mm in length. There are several large (up to 0.8 mm) dark ferruginized clasts and minor weathered volcanic rock fragments and angular quartz grains.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr274 - Huon pyroxenic

None (0) Minor (1) Few (2) Common (3) Frequent (4) Major (5) Very Dominant (6)
0% 0-5% 5-15% 15-30 % 30-50% 50-70% 70-100%
Cal. QuartzFeldspar Pyroxene Amphibole Opaques OlivineBiotite Muscovite Epidote Garnet/ Spinel Ig./Met. Rocks Sed. Rocks Grog Lithics
0 1 1 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 microlitic, microphaneritic

Images

Sio28_7 Sio28_7
Sherd 28/7 from Sio (New Guinea). Slide IL_1_63 from I Lilley. x4 Magnification PPL (left) XPL (right). Scale bar: 0.5mm. High resolution image in VIMIPO (user: Guest pwd: Guest). Imaged by K. Hardy and M. Leclerc, ANU.

Sherd: 28/7

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Sio (New Guinea)

Suspected origin site: Sio

References:

Prehistoric exchange in the Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea (Lilley, I.)