Sample: 72-ARh-334


Sample ID: 72-ARh-334 [1]
Station ID: 72-ARh-334
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Collector: Richter, D. H.
Date sampled: 1972-00-00
Sample type 1: Lava
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Text Description: Basalt and basaltic andesite flows. Extensive sequence of thin to medium flows with oxidized dark-red scoriaceous tops and bottoms in northwestern part of quadrangle. Rocks are gray to dark gray and contain small phenocrysts of olivine and minor hypersthene in a fine-grained intergranular to intersertal matrix of plagioclase and augite. Locally matrix is altered to chlorite and clay minerals. Source probably from volcanic center to northwest in Nabesna B-6 quadrangle.
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References Cited

[1] Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska, 1976

Richter, D.H., and Smith, R.L., 1976, Geologic map of the Nabesna A-5 quadrangle, Alaska: US Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Map 1292, 1 sheet, available at http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs?reqtype=citation&ID=13027 .