Fabric Code: tpr381

Vava'u lithic

Has orthopyroxene and clinopyroxenes. The glassy volcanic rock fragments are microvesicular, either pale brownish in coloration or nearly opaque (so-called tachylite, black with cryptocrystalline iron oxide inclusions).

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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.	Quartz	Feldspar	Pyroxene	Amphibole	Opaques	Olivine	Biotite	Muscovite	Epidote	Garnet/ Spinel	Ig./Met. Rocks	Sed. Rocks	Grog	Lithics/ Region
Max	1	0	3	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	microlitic, felsitic, vitric
Min	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	Tonga

Representative slides:

Slide	Site	Possible Origin	Cal.	Quartz	Feldspar	Pyroxene	Amphibole	Opaques	Olivine	Biotite	Muscovite	Epidote	Garnet/ Spinel	Ig./Met. Rocks	Sed. Rocks	Grog	Lithics
WD_71_15	Kapa (Kapa)	Vava'u	0	0	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	vitric, microlitic
WD_71_22	Kapa (Kapa)	Vava'u	0	0	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	vitric, microlitic
WD_71_21	Kapa (Kapa)	Kapa	0	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	vitric, microlitic

WD_71_15

Kapa_K7 — Sherd K7 from Kapa (Kapa). Slide WD_71_15 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.

Kapa_K7 — Sherd K7 from Kapa (Kapa). Slide WD_71_15 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.

Plain. Lithic.

WD_71_22

Kapa_36_1 — Sherd 36-1 from Kapa (Kapa). Slide WD_71_22 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.

Kapa_36_1 — Sherd 36-1 from Kapa (Kapa). Slide WD_71_22 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.

Undecorated Lapitoid sherd. Lithic.

WD_71_21

Kapa_56_2 — Sherd 56-2 from Kapa (Kapa). Slide WD_71_21 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.

Kapa_56_2 — Sherd 56-2 from Kapa (Kapa). Slide WD_71_21 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.

Lapita sherd. Lithic. Glassy predominate.

References:

124 Kapa, Vava'u, Tonga, 1996 (Dickinson, W.)

104 Kapa, Vava'u, Tonga, 1992 (Dickinson, W.)