Sample: 85CNS45
Sample ID: | 85CNS45 [1] [2] |
Station ID: | 85CNS45 |
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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-45 of Nye and Turner (1990)). Sparsely phyric lava from large lava lens in yellow-orange debris flow/lahar in Canyon bottom. Lava unit is jointed and fractured on 5-30 cm scale. Lava lenses 10s or m long scattered throughout unit. Not the same unit as block-and-ashflow flow 2 canyons to west or S01. |
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