Sample: 85CNS04
| Sample ID: | 85CNS04 [1] [2] |
| Station ID: | 85CNS04 |
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| Volcano: | Spurr |
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| Collector: | Nye, C. J. |
| Date sampled: | 1985-01-01 |
| Sample type 1: | Lava |
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| Text Description: | Sample of juvenile block from block-and-as flows deposited on the debris avalanche formed during flank collapse of ancestral Mt. Spurr (“pyroclastic fan”; sample PF-54 of Nye and Turner (1990). Lava flow same canyon as S3. Flow has abundant small columns and blocks ~25 cm diameter. Orangish stain (not hematite). "Perhaps much older than S3" (field notes). |
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References Cited
[1] Geothermal energy resource investigations at Mt. Spurr, Alaska, 1986
Turner, D.L., and Wescott. E.M. (eds.), 1986, Geothermal energy resource investigations at Mt. Spurr, Alaska: University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute Report UAG-R 308, 98 p., 5 plates, scale 1:2,860 and 1:6,250.
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