Sample: 53-F-66


Sample ID: 53-F-66 [1]
Station ID: 53-F-66
AT Num:
Volcano: Makushin
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Fraser, G. D.
Date sampled: 1953-01-01
Sample type 1: Countryrock
Color:
Final unit:
Text Description: Granodiorite from the Shaler pluton near the contact on the ridge between Blueberry Bay and Three Island Bay. The texture is hypidiomorphic- granular. Felsic minerals compose 70-80 percent of the rock: 10-15 percent quartz with undulatory extinction, 5-10 percent orthoclase partly altered to kaolin (
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Geology of Unalaska Island and adjacent insular shelf, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1961

Drewes, Harald, Fraser, G. D., Snyder, G. L., and Barnett, H. F. Jr., 1961, Geology of Unalaska Island and adjacent insular shelf, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: in Investigations of Alaskan volcanoes, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1028-S, p. 583-676, 3 sheets, scale 2 at 1:250,000 and 1 unknown.
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