Table 1.
Shapes and Color (Cont.)
Type of Shot
Tower
Shape
Color and Characteristics
7.
Ellipsoidal
White opaque, melted bubbly
projections, green-black interior.
Amber opaque, melted
bubbly projections.
8.
Teardrop
1.
Spheres
Smooth perfect glassy spheres
as individual particles adhering to soil grains.
Sometimes clusters of spheres of
transparent material.
Black
glassy spheres, often magnetic.
They appear to have solidified in
air.
Spheroids, oval in shape,
opaque.
Spheroidal, dull black,
cracked, veined with white
crystalline material.
2.
Irregulars
White irregulars in shape,
appearance of coral sand grains.
irregulars
Rare.
Black irregulars.
irregulars.
Ground Surface
Grey
Yellow irregulars.
3.
Needles
Orange needles.
4.
Flakes
Yellow-orange flakes.
1.
Spherical or
spheroidal
Shape depends upon soil type
and device characteristics.
All particles composed of
transparent and colorless
glass. Most of giass contains
fragments of mineral grains and
air bubbles,
Large percentage of
particles highly vesicular.
Smail
percentage dumbbell-shaped, pearshaped, and various modifications
of these.
2.
Irregular
Many particles were flaky.
None
of the particles hollow. White
opaque irregular porous particles.
Sometimes these particles are
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