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Sample: Snyder_1959_7

Sample ID: Snyder_1959_7 [1]
Station ID: Snyder_1959_7
AT Num:
Volcano: Little Sitkin
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Snyder, G. L.
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Lava
Color: grayish black
Final unit:
Text Description: Low-silica dacite of Little Sitkin dacite. Color: grayish black (N 2). Texture: hypocrystalline, porphyritic with plagioclase as much as 5 mm in length. Most plagioclase megaphenocryst and microphenocrysts, 25-30 percent, group around An56 but range from An25 to An78; complex oscillatory zoning common; many feldspars contain vermicular areas of dusty brown glass. Orthopyroxene, 8-10 percent, occurs as individual euhedrons and as cores in many clinopyroxene, 6 percent, crystals. Accessory minerals: magnetite, 2 percent, and oxyhornblende, 1 percent (xenocrysts?) Fluidal glassy groundmass contains angular crystal fragments, 3 percent, and euhedral rods of pyroxene (?).
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Geology of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska, 1959

Snyder, G. L., 1959, Geology of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska: in Investigations of Alaskan volcanoes, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1028-H, p. 169-210, 1 plate, scale 1:20,000.