Sample: Barth_1956_8
| Sample ID: | Barth_1956_8 [1] |
| Station ID: | Barth_1956_8 |
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| Volcano: | St. Paul Island |
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| Collector: | Barth, T. F. W. |
| Date sampled: | 1948-01-01 |
| Sample type 1: | Lava |
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| Text Description: | Sample of a dense flow of chrystophyric hyalobasanite, cropping out over a distance of several miles along the west shore (and under Einahnuhto Bluffs) of St. Paul Island. The rock is gray with finely crystalline groundmass studded with clear, yellow phenocrysts of olivine from 1 mm to 10 mm across, some zoned; refractive index and 2V angle correspond to about Fa20. Very few phenocrysts are clinopyroxene; they are always zoned and usually pitted and intergrown with minerals of the groundmass. Refractive index and 2V angle correspond to He40. The glassy groundmass includes small grains of olivine and pyroxene. Small plagioclase laths form a mesh; indices of refraction lie in the range 1.555-1.565, indicating about An55. The glass shows incipient crystallization, index, n=1.53-1.54. |
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References Cited
[1] Geology and petrology of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, 1956
Barth, T. F. W., 1956, Geology and petrology of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska: in Investigations of Alaskan volcanoes, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1028-F, p. 101-160, 2 sheets, scale unknown.
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