PETROGRAPHY ANALYSIS

Sample Code
Stopsite Number
Location
Unit
Formation
A

: ST. 20 (Vitric Tuff (Schmid, 1981))

: ST.20
: Margalaksana
: 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 rounded, well sorting, open fabric, hardness friable, good permeability, massive structural
Microscopic Description:
The colour is colourless under plane polarized view, grain roundness is subrounded to
rounded, open fabric, well sorted ,this is a pyroclastic rock composed of 41% of matrix
(volcanic glass) and 59 % of fragment composed with lithic fragment (andesite/basalt) ,
plagioclase feldspar , volcanic glass, opaque minerals, and any other rapid cooling minerals.
Matrix
Volcanic glass
Lithic Fragment
Igneous Rock Fragment

41 %
: colorless in plane polarized light but black with
the polarizers crossed, no pleocroism, isotropic,
low relief
17 %
: colourless in plane polarized light, grain
roundness is surrounded, by the presence of

Crystal Fragment
:

Glass Fragment
Volcanic glass
Rock Name

:
:

pyroxene and plagioclase feldspar dominated the

lithic
fragment
is
distinguished
as
andesite/basalt(?)
9%
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
33 %
colorless in plane polarized light but black with
the polarizers crossed, no pleocroism, isotropic,
low relief
Vitric Tuff, Schmid (1981)