Sample: AL09-06PM


Sample ID: AL09-06PM [1]
Station ID: AL09-06
AT Num:
Volcano: Makushin
Possible source:
Eruption: Makushin Driftwood Pumice
Collector: Lerner, A. H.
Date sampled: 2009-00-00
Sample type 1: Tephra Fall
Color: brown -beige
Final unit:
Text Description: Middle Pumice is 10-115cm thick layer of moderately well-sorted, ungraded vitric lapilli and fine blocks. The most abundant clast-type is brown-beige pumice, which occurs as lapilli and bombs as large as 15cm in the long dimension. PM also has sparse, smaller lithic fragments (5 wt% of layer) that are both vitric (60% of lithics) and vairably altered volcanic lithologies (40% of lithics)
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Stratigraphy, distribution, and evidence for mafic triggering of the ca. 8.5 ka Driftwood Pumice eruption, Makushin Volcano, Alaska, U.S.A., 2018

Lerner, A.H., Crowley, P.D., Nicolaysen, K.P., and Hazlett, R.W., 2018, Stratigraphy, distribution, and evidence for mafic triggering of the ca. 8.5 ka Driftwood Pumice eruption, Makushin Volcano, Alaska, U.S.A.: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 357, p. 362-377, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2018.05.006 .