Ceramic Petrography Database

Petdb is a searchable database of published geochemical data for igneous metamorphic rocks including.

Ceramic petrography database.

It outlines how the system can be used by the archaeological community and anticipates its potential for greater. Recognition of distinctive ceramics by visual inspection is the norm in surface survey especially when ceramic types are as varied and colourful as those of islamic medieval pottery. Petdb s content is constantly being updated. It outlines how the system can be used by the archaeological.

This paper outlines petrodatabase describes how it can be used and anticipates its potential for greater comparability in thin section ceramic petrography. Here petrographic analysis is used successfully to define the ceramic categories and the contributions of local and imported wares. It outlines how the system can be used by the archaeological. Ophiolites under development search petdb.

The page is organized with a series of links to references and topical areas many of which are in a continual state of construction. In this paper three analytical methods optical petrography scanning electron microscopy sem and x ray diffraction xrd are applied to ceramic molds models and cores associated with bronze production at the last capital of the shang dynasty yinxu in the modern city of anyang in north china. Magmatic rocks generated at mid ocean ridges back arc basins young seamounts. This library contains digital images uploaded by archive users which range from maps to astronomical imagery to photographs of artwork.

1 the goal of these analyses is to determine the mineralogical composition and.