PEPP Thin Section 201

Identification:

African Sigillata Fabric 2.1 - African Sigillata 2.1 Hayes 31 dish

Description :

Inactive matrix with common quartz, rare claystone, and few voids (probably representing in part calcareous bodies)

Basic Information

Specimen:

PEPP 7000

Class:

African Sigillata 2.1

Form:

African Sigillata 2.1 Form 2

Fabric:

African Sigillata 2.1 Fabric

Analysis

Phase Ratio

Percent Matrix:

Percent Inclusions:

Percent Voids:

Matrix

Optical Activity:

inactive

Inclusions

General Description:

Common poorly sorted quartz grains in very fine sand to fine sand range, with significant portion of this material in the latter size category and with probably some grains at the lower end of the medium sand size range (ca. 200-300 microns).

Characterization:

Type:

colorless grains (quartz)

Abundance:

common

Condition:

subangular

subrounded

rounded

Size:

very fine sand

fine sand

Type:

reddish bodies (claystone?)

Abundance:

rare

Condition:

rounded

well rounded

Size:

very fine sand

Voids

General Description:

Voids presumably include casts of carbonate rock fragments.

Shape:

vesicle

vugh

Abundance:

few

Size:

meso

Photomicrographs

Thin Section Photomicrographs:

Preparation and Documentation

Fabrication of Thin Section:

Quality Thin Sectios, 2006.

Analysis of Thin Section:

Analyzed by J. Theodore Peña, 02/2017.

Photography of Thin Section:

Photographed by J. Theodore Peña, 02/2017.

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