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- Porcellanite or porcelanite, is a hard, dense rock somewhat similar in appearance to unglazed porcelain. It is often an impure variety of chert containing...
- ISBN 978-0922152896. Fediuk, F.; Langrova, A.; Melka, K. (2003). "North Bohemian Porcellanites and their Mineral Composition: the Case of the Dobrčice Quarry, the...
- and porphyritic Porphyritic rhyolite Pyroclastic Rhyolitic tuff or breccia Vesicular Pumice Amygdaloidal None Vitreous (Gl****y) Obsidian or porcellanite...
- and often polished. The products of axe factories next to sources of porcellanite, an especially good stone, were traded across Ireland; the main ones...
- as:[citation needed] Great Langdale, England (tuff) Rathlin Island, Ireland (porcellanite) Krzemionki, Poland (flint) Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes, Belgium...
- back as the Mesolithic period. A Neolithic stone axe factory featuring porcellanite stone is to be found in Brockley, a cluster of houses within the townland...
- Rocks from the Monterey formation consist mostly of silicate shales and porcellanite (silica derived from fossil plankton in an intermediate to deep-water...
- non-volcanic sediments. Doleritic sills in siltstone and mudstone. A Porcellanite deposit was quarried by the Māori but note that some deposits may be...
- County Antrim 54°34′16″N 5°56′42″W / 54.571°N 5.945°W / 54.571; -5.945 (Malone ****d) 1869–1918 Ulster Museum, Belfast 19 polished porcellanite axes...
- Neolithic period. Excavation of one of the cairns revealed a polished porcellanite axe, which may have originated from the Tievebulliagh axe factory, some...