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Sample: SH5

Sample ID: SH5 [1] [2] [3]
Station ID: SH5
AT Num:
Volcano: Shishaldin
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Fournelle, J. H.
Date sampled: 1984-01-01
Sample type 1: Lava
Color: dark gray
Final unit: Hl
Text Description: Sample of high alumina basalt that covers tens of square kilometers of the lower northwest flank of Shishaldin. Its source could have Lurch cone (at3100') or Shishaldin' s summit vent (doubtful). Sample is vesicular and porphyritic.
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] Geology and petrology of Shishaldin volcano, Unimak Island, Aleutian Arc, Alaska, 1988

Fournelle, J. H., 1988, Geology and petrology of Shishaldin volcano, Unimak Island, Aleutian Arc, Alaska: The Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. dissertation, 507 p., 2 plates, scale unknown.

[2] Shishaldin Volcano: Aleutian high-alumina basalts and the question of plagioclase accumulation, 1991

Fournelle, John, and Marsh, B. D., 1991, Shishaldin Volcano: Aleutian high-alumina basalts and the question of plagioclase accumulation: Geology, v. 19, n. 3, p. 234-237.

[3] Low-delta (super 18) O tephra from a compositionally zoned magma body: Fisher Caldera, Unimak Island, Aleutians, 2001

Bindeman, I. N., Fournelle, J. H., and Valley, J. W., 2001, Low-delta (super 18) O tephra from a compositionally zoned magma body: Fisher Caldera, Unimak Island, Aleutians: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 111, n. 1-4, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Elsevier, p. 35-53.