Sample: 09KCNYE108
Sample ID: | 09KCNYE108 [1] |
Station ID: | 09KCNYE108 |
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Volcano: | Kasatochi |
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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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