Sample: 72-PCL-83


Sample ID: 72-PCL-83 [1]
Station ID: 72-PCL-83
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Collector: Lowe, P. C.
Date sampled: 1972-00-00
Sample type 1: Lava
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Text Description: Wrangell Lava. Andesite and basaltic andesite flows - Extensive sequence of thin to medium flows with oxidized dark-red scoriaceous tops and bottoms. May include younger thin basalt flows from local eruptive centers. Rocks are gray to dark gray with small (<1 mm) phenocrysts of olivine and minor hypersthene in a fine-grained intergranular to intersertal matrix of plagioclase and augite. Locally, rocks are altered to chlorite and clay minerals. Sources probably to the west in the Nabsena B-6 quadrangle. Rocks distinguished from similar unit QTau by predominance of olivine over hypersthene and by absence of pyroclastic beds
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References Cited

[1] Geologic map of the Nabesna B-5 Quadrangle, Alaska, 1982

Lowe, P.C., Richter, D.H., Smith, R.L., and Schmoll, H.R., 1982, Geologic map of the Nabesna B-5 Quadrangle, Alaska: US Geological Survey Geologic Quadrangle Maps 1566, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360, available at http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/pubs/pubs?reqtype=citation&ID=13055 .