Sample: 09KCNYE108


Sample ID: 09KCNYE108 [1]
Station ID: 09KCNYE108
AT Num:
Volcano: Kasatochi
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Nye, C. J.
Date sampled: 2009-01-01
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Text Description: Hand sample; >20g. Sample of massive lava from "the nose" septum. Massive lava with large irregular planar, angular conchoidal fracture. Oxidized throughout to irregular wine & gray. Weird. 40%k plag, cpx,+-ol basalt. Common cm-sized "eyes" with dark coarse interior of cpx-amph - up to 1 cm crystals - surrounded by very light pinkish-white very-fine grained holocrystalline material surrounding dark eye and streaking out to thin wisps. About half a dozen per 50 cm2 of sample surface.
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References Cited

[1] Geology of Kasatochi volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 2017

Nye, C.J., Scott, W.E., Neill, O.K., Waythomas, C.F., Cameron, C.E., and Calvert, A.T., 2017, Geology of Kasatochi volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Professional Report 123, 127 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:5000. http://doi.org/10.14509/29718