Sample: 09KCnye009b


Sample ID: 09KCnye009b [1]
Station ID: 09KCNYE009
AT Num:
Volcano: Kasatochi
Possible source: Kasatochi
Eruption:
Collector: Nye, C. J.
Date sampled: 2009-01-01
Sample type 1: pyroclastic density current
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Text Description: Luna pyroclastic deposits. A bag of hand-picked pumices from the young pfs that formed south shore bluff prior to 2008. These from about 1 m below 08 vegitation surface. Individual pumices present as two major groups. (a)Vesicular dark to light olive gray w/ orange-red oxidation and light olive gray rinds, glass threads and fibers in gms, very vesicular. (b) Denser med-olive-gray w/ finer vesicles and lacking obviously stretched glass fibers. Would have thought these were separate lithologies but pMax in bag (13x8x6.5 cm) has a core of (b) grading irregularly to (a) --- not obvious banding- may be diffuse banding. So (a) and (b) may be core vs rim, yet the same material - samples taken of each, just in case. These two lithologies similar to those in wes006. Chemistry sample of 009a is from pMax. 009b is two smaller pumices together.
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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