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Sample: 06AUMC008b.p1

Sample ID: 06AUMC008b.p1 [1]
Station ID: 06AUMC008
AT Num:
Volcano: Augustine
Possible source:
Eruption: Augustine 2005/12
Collector: Coombs, M. L.
Date sampled: 2006-02-20
Sample type 1: Lahar
Color: light grey
Final unit: 2006_ExLh
Text Description: 13x11 mm piece of subangular scoria with a 30% gray rim and 60% gray core. Sample has small (less than 1 cm), irregular patches of lighter magma. Coarsely crystalline groundmass with plagioclase and pyroxene phenocrysts in a dark green-gray matrix.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Petrology and geochemistry of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, 2010

Larsen, J.F., Nye, C.J., Coombs, M.L., Tilman, Mariah, Izbekov, Pavel, and Cameron, Cheryl, 2010, Petrology and geochemistry of the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, chapter 15 of Power, J.A., Coombs, M.L., and Freymueller, J.T., eds., The 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1769, p. 335-382 and spreadsheets [http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1769/chapters/p1769_chapter15].