Sample: 19B_BRN
| Sample ID: | 19B_BRN [1] |
| Station ID: | Swanson_95_19 |
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| Possible source: | Crater Peak |
| Eruption: | Crater Peak 1992/9 |
| Collector: | Swanson, S. E. |
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| Sample type 1: | Tephra Fall |
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| Text Description: | Brown ash containing blocky fragments of porphyritic andesite (containing fragments of phenocrysts of plagioclase, hornblende, augite, hypersthene, and FeTi oxides ina matrix of brown glass with abundant microlites). |
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References Cited
[1] Use of volcanic glass from ash as a monitoring tool: an example from the 1992 eruptions of Crater Peak, Mount Spurr volcano, Alaska, 1995
Swanson, S. E., Harbin, M. L., and Riehle, J. R., 1995, Use of volcanic glass from ash as a monitoring tool: an example from the 1992 eruptions of Crater Peak, Mount Spurr volcano, Alaska: in Keith, T. E. C., (ed.), The 1992 eruptions of Crater Peak Vent, Mount Spurr volcano, Alaska, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2139, p. 129-137.
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