Sample: 74-AMm-89


Sample ID: 74-AMm-89 [1]
Station ID: 74-AMm-89
AT Num:
Volcano: Wrangell
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Miller, T. P.
Date sampled: 1974-00-00
Sample type 1: Lava
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Final unit:
Text Description: Thin to thick flows of dacite and andesite (?). Visited only massive two-pyroxene dacite flow of probable Mount Wrangell affinity, exposed in tributary of Dadina River (loc. 29, sec. 26, T. 3 N., R. 4 E.) Rock is medium gray and locally vesicular and contains phenocrysts (2-5 mm) of abundant plagioclase and hypersthene and rare to common augite and olivine in an intersertal to intergranular groundmass.
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References Cited

[1] Geologic map of the Gulkana A-2 quadrangle, Alaska, 1979

Richter, D. H., Smith, R. L., Yehle, L. A., and Miller, T. P., 1979, Geologic map of the Gulkana A-2 quadrangle, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geological Quadrangle Map GQ 1520, unpaged, 1 plate, scale 1:63,360.