Pottery stone

Japanese: 陶石 - とうせき
Pottery stone

A general name for a group of minerals used as a raw material for ceramics. Mineralogically, it is composed of fine grains of quartz and muscovite, and may contain pyrite, kaolinite, halloysite (a type of kaolin), etc. In Japan, it is a product of shallow hydrothermal alteration from the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period onwards, and is mostly made from acidic volcanic rocks, pyroclastic rocks, sandstone, mudstone, etc., and is mined as a raw material for ceramics and refractory materials. There are many large deposits in western Japan, including the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture and the Amakusa region in Kumamoto Prefecture.

[Akira Kato]

[References] | Pyrite | Kaolinite | Kaolin | Acid rocks | Muscovite | Quartz | Miocene | Pottery | Alteration

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

陶磁器原料として利用される鉱物集合の一般的名称。鉱物学的には、石英と白雲母(うんも)の細粒集合からなり、黄鉄鉱、カオリナイト、ハロイサイト(カオリンの一種)などを含むことがある。日本では、新第三紀中新世以後の浅所での熱水変質作用の産物として、多くは酸性の火山岩、火砕岩、砂岩、泥岩などからつくられたもので、陶磁器原料、耐火材などとして採掘されている。長崎県五島(ごとう)列島、熊本県天草(あまくさ)地方などをはじめ西日本に大規模な鉱床が多い。

[加藤 昭]

[参照項目] | 黄鉄鉱 | カオリナイト | カオリン | 酸性岩 | 白雲母 | 石英 | 中新世 | 陶磁器 | 変質作用

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