Slide: WD_17_1

Unique paste with high proportion of fresh volcanic glass shards (ash). Isotropic volcanic glass, pale brown or tan, with curvilinear, forked and branching shapes Sand made of vitrics of microvesicular (pumiceous) volcanic glass.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr203 - Banda pyroxenic-feldspathic

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 4 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 vitric, microlitic

Images

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Sherd WmSu7 from Wangil (Wammar). Slide WD_17_1 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: WmSu7

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Wangil (Wammar)

Suspected origin site: Banda

References:

212 Aru, west Irian, Arafura Sea, 2002 (Dickinson, W.)