Soil Systems, Inc. Lithic Material Type Coding Sheet

Creator(s): Soil Systems, Inc.

Year: unknown

Summary

These are the codes used by Soil Systems, Inc., to indicate material type for lithic artifacts.

Cite this Record

Soil Systems, Inc. Lithic Material Type Coding Sheet. Soil Systems, Inc.. ( tDAR id: 366296) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8P55KQT

Category: Chipped Stone

Subcategory: Material

Coding Rules

Code Term Description Mapped Ontology Node
1 Historic Glass
10 Cryptocrystalline silicate
11 Chert
12 Chalcedony
13 Petrified wood
14 Washington Pass chert
15 Morrison Formation chert
16 Brushy Basin chert
17 Burro Canyon chert
18 Cherry Creek (AZ) chert
20 Glassy volcanic
21 Ignimbrite/vitrophyre/pitchstone (opaque on a thin margin)
22 Obsidian (translucent on a thin margin)
27 Diorite
28 Granodiorite
29 Dacite
30 Nonglassy igneous
31 Diabase
32 Granite
33 Welded tuff
34 Aphanitic basalt
35 Vesicular basalt
36 Vesicular basalt with large plagioclase inclusions
37 Vesicular basalt with large hornblende inclusions
38 Vesicular basalt with large plagioclase and hornblende inclusions
39 Vesicular basalt with large quartz inclusions
40 Vesicular basalt lacking obvious inclusions
41 Metabasalt with or without large olivine inclusions (greenstone)
42 Red or brown rhyolite (may contain inclusions)
43 Andesite
44 Metarhyolite
49 Cherry Creek (AZ) metashale
50 Metamorphic
51 Quartzite
52 Gneiss
53 Schist or phyllite/schist
54 Metaquartzite/orthoquartzite
55 Conglomerate
56 Jet
57 Burro Canyon orthoquartzite
58 Morrison orthoquartzite
59 Brushy Basin orthoquartzite
60 Sedimentary
61 Massive quartz
62 Quartz crystal(s)
63 Sandstone
64 Turquoise
65 Argillite
66 Slate/steatite
67 Hematite
68 Slag
69 Shale/indurated shale
70 Gypsum
71 White earthy material (kaolinite, montmorillonite, clay ironstone, etc.)
72 Calcite
73 Limonite
74 Carnotite
75 Yellow earthy material (not limonite or carnotite)
76 Coal
77 Azurite
78 Malachite
79 Chrysocolla
80 Alabaster
81 Selenite
82 Metallic copper-related minerals (pyrite, bornite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, etc.)
83 Mica/muscovite
84 Ochre ( red or yellow)
99 Other
Special Coding Rules: These entries are not in the coding-sheet, but represent edge-cases in Data Integration that may benefit from custom mappings

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