Fabric Code: tpr280

Exotic Aneityum vitric quartz

Quartz vitric, exotic.

Sites:

Mineral and Rock Abundances

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%

Name Cal. QuartzFeldspar Pyroxene Amphibole Opaques OlivineBiotite Muscovite Epidote Garnet/ SpinelIg./Met. Rocks Sed. Rocks Grog Lithics/ Region
Max 0 1 3 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 vitric, felsitic, microlitic
Min 0 1 3 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 Vanuatu

Representative slides:

Slide Site Possible OriginCal. QuartzFeldspar Pyroxene Amphibole Opaques OlivineBiotite Muscovite Epidote Garnet/ Spinel Ig./Met. Rocks Sed. Rocks Grog Lithics
WD_53_3 Aneityum (Aneityum) Exotic 0 1 3 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 vitric, felsitic, microlitic

WD_53_3

AnatomA1 AnatomA1
Sherd A1 from Aneityum (Aneityum). Slide WD_53_3 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.

Quartz. Vitric.


References:

301 Aneityum, Vanuatu, 2012 (Dickinson, W.)