PETROGRAPHY ANALYSIS

Sample Code
Stopsite Number
Location
Unit
Formation
A

: ST. 28 (Vitric Tuff (Schmid, 1981))

: ST28
: Tagogapu
: Tuff Unit (Qt)
:
E

10

10
XPL

0,25 mm

10

10
XPL

0,25 mm

Megascopic Description:
Fresh colour light brown, weathered
colour dark brown, grain size coarse tuff,
grain shape sub angular, medium sorting,
open fabric, hard
Microscopic Description:
The colour is colorless under plane
polarized view, grain roundness is
subangular to subrounded, open fabric, medium sorted ,this is a pyroclastic rock composed
of 65% of matrix (volcanic glass) and 35 % of fragment composed with lithic fragment (tuff)
, plagioclase feldspar , volcanic glass, and any other rapid cooling minerals.
Matrix
Volcanic glass
Lithic Fragment

65 %
: colorless in plane polarized light but black with
the polarizers crossed, no pleocroism, isotropic,
low relief
2%

Pyroclastic Rock Fragment

Crystal Fragment

Glass Fragment
Volcanic Glass
Rock Name

: colorless in plane polarized light, grain roundness

is subangular, the fragment is tuff fragment
12 %
Quartz
: colorless in plane polarized light, no pleokroism,
low relief, refractive index is n mineral > n
medium, fragment roundness is sub rounded, low
birefringence uniaxial positive, absence of
cleavage and alteration
Plagioclase Feldspar
: colorless in plane polarized light, no pleokroism,
low relief, refractive index is n mineral < n
medium, fragment roundness is sub rounded, low
birefringence, polysynthetic twinned, carlsbad and
albite twinning is common
21 %
: colorless in plane polarized light but black with
the polarizers crossed, no pleocroism, isotropic,
low relief
: Vitric Tuff, Schmid (1981)