Tuff (DE.13.0001)
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- Rock determination
- Igneous rock > Pyroclastic > Tuff
- Chronostratigraphy
- Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary; Pleistocene
- Lithostratigraphy
- Rock name
- Ettringer tuff
- Rock synonyms
- Hasentopfler ; volcanic tuff
- Additional information
Find location
- Site type
- Quarry
- Location
- Germany; Rheinland-Pfalz; Ettringen
- Region
- Eifel; Eastern Eifel
- Site name
- Etrringen (undefined quarry)
- Excavation or Survey Team
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Additional contextual information
- found in a quarry in the region of Ettringen (precise coordinates undefined)
- Natural color
- yellowish with various dark rock inclusions
- Aged color
- Components
- volcanic glass, Fe-Mg silicates, zeolites, lithoclasts of volcanic (basalt) and sedimentary rocks (sandstone; siltstone; shale); pale zeolitic groundmass; porous
- Texture
- pyroclastic/breccious; angular to sub-angular lithoclasts (size up to several cm)
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- inclusions of volcanic (basalt) and sedimentary rocks (sandstone; shale); pale groundmass
- Additional information
- Flepostore inventory nr.
- ARCH3.L1.A21
- Original inventory nr.
- A0099
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Type
- Covered thin section
- Comparable thin section(s)
- Components
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fine-grained and porous matrix composed of volcanic glass with numerous lithoclasts and various phenocrysts; lithoclasts of both volcanic rocks (basalt, scoria) and siliciclastic rocks (siltstone, sandstone); phenocrysts of pyroxenes and biotite, possibly some olivine (?)
- Texture
- lithoclasts of siliciclastic rocks are mostly angular, those of volcanic rocks tend to be often rounded
- Structure
- Weathering
- Diagnostic features
- Additional information
- Sample type
- Rock sample
- Inventory number
- DE.13.0001
- Collection
- Archaeological Department, Ghent University
- Donating institute/person
- Dr. Roland Dreesen
- Host collection
- Other samples available
- No
- Sample collection method
- Field Sampling (clay/rock)
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Last modified: 2024-04-28.