Slide: WD_15_1a

Heterogeneous sands of the tectonic highland temper class with red-brown vitric lithic fragments of mafic volcanic glass, iron oxides opaques, clinopyroxene and olivine mineral grains,chert and argillite lithic fragments with recrystallized ghosts of ovoid radiolarian tests visible in selected instances, microlitic lithic fragments derived from the groundmass of volcanic rocks.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr57 - Luzon tectonic highland

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 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 vitric, microlitic, microphaneritic, argillitic, chert

Images

Dimolit_52_1_1 Dimolit_52_1_1
Sherd 52-1-1 from Dimolit (Luzon). Slide WD_15_1a from Dickinson Collection, Bishop Museum. x4 Magnification PPL (left) XPL (right). Scale bar: 0.5mm. High resolution image (user: Guest pwd: Guest) or full slide in VIMIPO. Imaged by K. Hardy and M. Leclerc, ANU.

Sherd: 52-1-1

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Dimolit (Luzon)

Suspected origin site:

References:

254 Luzon, Batan, Taiwan, 2006 (Dickinson, W.)