Sample: 06AUNYE012


Sample ID: 06AUNYE012 [1]
Station ID: 06AUNYE012
AT Num:
Volcano: Augustine
Possible source:
Eruption: Augustine 1976/1
Collector: Nye, C. J.
Date sampled: 2006-08-19
Sample type 1: Lava
Color:
Final unit: pre-2006
Text Description: Fragile, breadcrusted block ~50 cm in diameter with very light gray surface and light gray interior . Found in an area with thin wash of 2006 green pyroclastic flow. Sugary white groundmass, 2 pyroxenes to ~1 mm. Sample has pre-2006 lithology, classed here as a 1976 deposit.
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].