Tel Qiri

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Bowl

Israel/Jezreel Valley

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Dining/Drinking/Serving

This group combines an assortment of calcareous clays, the shared trait of which is their set of inclusions (see below). Dark brown silty clays with a rich calcareous silt to fine sand content are the dominant variant. In clays of this group aeolian quartzitic silt occurs in moderate amounts (4–7%). Similar to petro-fabrics PG1a, PG2 and PG4, the non-plastic component is dominated by rounded to sub-rounded, often spherical quartz sand (generally up to 525 µm; average grain size: 200–250 µm), forming 10–15% of the slide area. Accompanying heavy minerals and feldspars occur in moderate amounts, and appear mainly as very fine grains. additional inclusions comprise the occasional limestone and chert and, rarely, chalk, kurkar and marine...