Slide: WD_46_10

Strongly placered stream sand temper with dominant proportion of opaque iron oxides and subequal proportions of plagioclase and vitric volcanic rock fragments. Microlitic fragments in which birefringent plagioclase microlites are embedded in tan to brown volcanic glass, felsitic fragments composed of microgranular quartz-feldspar mosaics formed by devitrification of felsic volcanic glass, and vitric or glassy fragments of tan to brown (or red) volcanic glass.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr229 - Efate opaque-rich placer

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 1 3 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 vitric

Images

Teouma_TI16 Teouma_TI16
Sherd TI16 from Teouma (Efate). Slide WD_46_10 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: TI16

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Teouma (Efate)

Suspected origin site: Efate

References:

282 Teouma, Efate, Vanuatu, 2009 (Dickinson, W.)

277 Teouma, Efate, Vanuata, 2009 (see 282) (Dickinson, W.)

297b Teouma, Efate, Vanuatu, 2011 (Dickinson, W.)