Sample: 72-ARh-315
Sample ID: | 72-ARh-315 [1] |
Station ID: | 72-ARh-315 |
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Volcano: | Jarvis |
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Collector: | Richter, D. H. |
Date sampled: | 1972-00-00 |
Sample type 1: | Lava |
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Text Description: | Rhyolite cinder cone and nuee ardente deposits. Cinder cone consists chiefly of unconsolidated rubble of dense glassy blocks, pumiceous scoria, and lapilli. Nuee ardente deposits composed largely of bread-crust blocks in a matrix of unconsolidated ash and lapilli. Rocks are buff to light gray and contain rare small hypersthene and plagioclase phenocrysts in a plagioclase-rich hyalopilitic or glass matrix. |
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