Death Valley – San Francisco

Amedium-coarse textured, reddish clay. It is similar to Rod’s Bod in throwing qualities, but fires to adarker brown colorand has the sameiron speckling. Death Valley Red is a good clay forsmall to medium pottery.

Characteristics
Cone: 10
Wet Color: Red
FiringColor: Oxidation: Orange/Brown – Reduction: Dark Brown
Texture: Medium Coarse
Penetrometer Target: 7
Avg. Shrinkage 2%: 12.5%
Avg. Water Absorption 1%: 0.8%
COE x 10-6: 4.9