Alaska Volcano Observatory

Very fresh, highly fractured andesite outcrop at 2300 ft elevation between Spotted and striped glaciers. Appears to be very young. Porphyritic olivine andesite containing ~25% phenocrysts of olivine (20%, up to 1.2 x 0.6 mm), pyroxene (3%, 0.6 x 0.3 mm), and plagioclase (2%, 0.6 x 0.2 mm) in a matrix dominated by interlocking plagioclase microlites (200 x 15 microns) and pyroxene (20 microns). Olivine phenocrysts contain euhedral translucent brown chromite octahedral.

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300 km

200 mi

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References Cited

[1] Geochemistry of some Quaternary lavas from the Aleutian Arc and Mt. Wrangell, 2018

Nye, C.J., Beget, J.E., Layer, P.W., Mangan, M.T., McConnell, V.S., McGimsey, R.G., Miller, T.P., Moore, R.B., and Stelling, P.L., 2018, Geochemistry of some quaternary lavas from the Aleutian Arc and Mt. Wrangell: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2018-1, 29 p. http://doi.org/10.14509/29843

publication on DGGS website.

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