Slide: WD_48_1

Basaltic sand, with chalcedony quartz lacking hornblende and containing volcanic lithic fragments that are dominantly microlitic, contanis plagioclase feldspar grains, and clinopyroxene.

Mineral and Rock Abundances

Fabric: tpr246 - Ambae basaltic

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 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 microlitic, vitric, chert, felsitic

Images

AmbaeAM1 AmbaeAM1
Sherd AM1 from Ambae (Ambae). Slide WD_48_1 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: AM1

None

Period: None wikidata:

Site: Ambae (Ambae)

Suspected origin site: Ambae

References:

255 Vanuatu, 2006 (Dickinson, W.)