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Clay Petrography

Provenience

K'axob, swamp along dirt road to San Estevan, south of road, 200-300m from cane field

Soil suite

Xaibe Plain

Percentage of shrinkage before firing

.066

Percentage of shrinkage after firing

.066

Munsell color before firing

10YR 8/2

Munsell color after firing

5YR 7/1

Aplastic spacing

More than double

Aplastic shape

Subangular

B-Fabric

Streams

Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)

Rounded calcite

Quartz (%)

Few

Oxides (%)

Few

Other aplastics

Mudstone

Other aplastics (%)

Few

Additional aplastics

Micrite