Slide: WD_10_7

Quartzose temper whose grains include mainly quartz and polycrystalline quartz-albite fragments with microgranular texture, although albite, epidote, and clinopyroxene grains are also present.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr42 - Yap quartzose

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 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 microphaneritic

Images

Ngulu6 Ngulu6
Sherd 6 from Ngulu (Ngulu). Slide WD_10_7 from Dickinson Collection, Bishop Museum. 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: 6

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Ngulu (Ngulu)

Suspected origin site: Yap

References:

089 Yap 1981 (Dickinson, W.)