Sample: 10AZnye02h
Sample ID: | 10AZnye02h [1] | ||||||||||
Station ID: | 10AZ02h_i | ||||||||||
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Collector: | Nye, C. J. | ||||||||||
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Sample type 1: | Lava | ||||||||||
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Text Description: | This outcrop is a large lava mass consisting of host lava with abundant rounded magmatic inclusions several cm to 10s of cm across. Host is porphyritic pl-hb andesite w/ 15% pl (5-10mm) and 5% hb (1-3mm) in a fine-grained light greenish-grey gms. Inclusions are very fine-grained and equigranular with pl, px, hb in randomly oriented xl <<1mm (save a few percent mm-sized hb crystals). Northernmost of three domes shown by Coats (1956, USGS Bull 1028-C), who calls these, and two others near downtown Adak, Ta, Andesite porphyry domes. Coats notes these domes are glaciated (thus pre-late Pleistocene), but don't share the structural style of surrounding Finger Bay volcanics (thus not buried, much younger). Coats assigns an early Tertiary age (but he assigns late T to Moffett and Adagdak volcanoes; mid T to Andrew Bay volcano; and Paleozoic to Finger Bay volcs -- clearly too old. My guess would be early to mid Pleistocene for these domes.). | ||||||||||
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