015

Clay Petrography

Provenience

Old Northern Highway, 6.1km along highway heading east, north side of road, at Tiger Creek in small lagoon 20m from road

Soil suite

Lazaro Plain

Percentage of shrinkage before firing

.066

Percentage of shrinkage after firing

.1

Munsell color before firing

10YR 5/1

Munsell color after firing

7.5YR 5/6

Aplastic spacing

Single

Aplastic shape

Subangular

Aplastic sorting

Well

B-Fabric

Speckled

Aplastics in B-Fabric (below 0.05 mm)

No distinct minerals

Quartz (%)

40

Oxides (%)

1

Chert (%)

Few

Clay (%)

59

Other aplastics

Mudstone

Other aplastics (%)

Rare

Additional aplastics

Polyquartz