Sample: Y-126


Sample ID: Y-126 [1] [2]
Station ID: Y-126
AT Num:
Volcano: Kaguyak
Possible source:
Eruption: Kaguyak CFE
Collector: Fierstein, J. E.
Date sampled: 2000-00-00
Sample type 1: pyroclastic density current
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Text Description: Kaguyak Ignimbrite. Dark grey-brown ignimbrite with a sandy matrix and abundant small dacite pumice clasts; includes at least one PCZ in upper part of the section; Conspicuous 2-m-thick LCZ near top of section (same as Y-125 LCZ). Ignimbrite+underlying fallout rest on Big Breccia deposit. Exposed thickness: 12 m. PCZs: one well-developed and several faint ones. See text for MP and ML. Pumice clasts: white pumice, coarsely vesicular, many large pxn-clot blebs. Lithic clasts: all lithics are andesite-dacite lava clasts; many have orange-brown alteration rinds.
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References Cited

[1] Kaguyak dome field and its Holocene caldera, Alaska Peninsula, 2008

Fierstein, Judy, and Hildreth, Wes, 2008, Kaguyak dome field and its Holocene caldera, Alaska Peninsula: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 177, n. 2, p. 340-366, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2008.05.016 .
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[2] Previously unpublished whole-rock major- and trace-element compositions of volcanic samples from the Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian arc, Alaska, 2025

Coombs, M.L., Cameron, C.E., Gardner, C.A., Larsen, J.F., Fierstein, J.E., Loewen, M.W., Izbekov, P.E., and Dietterich, H.R., 2025, Previously unpublished whole-rock major- and trace-element compositions of volcanic samples from the Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian arc, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2025-2, 9 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31455
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