010

Clay Petrography

Provenience

Sample from cane road, west of main plaza group at Nohmul

Soil suite

Sibal Swamps

Percentage of shrinkage before firing

0

Percentage of shrinkage after firing

.033

Munsell color before firing

10YR 4/1

Munsell color after firing

10YR 8/2

Aplastic spacing

More than double

Aplastic shape

Subround

Aplastic sorting

Poor

B-Fabric

Rounded calcite

Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)

Rounded calcite

Calcite (%)

13

Quartz (%)

4

Clay (%)

81