Sample: BCM-14


Sample ID: BCM-14 [1]
Station ID: BCM-14
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Volcano: Tanada Peak
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Lava
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Text Description: Wrangell Lava. Tanada volcano. Shield lavas. Chiefly dark-gray to medium-gray, thin to medium (2-10 m) flows of sparsely porphyritic andesite and basaltic andesite and minor intercalated laharic and pyroclastic deposits. Flows contain phenocrysts of plagioclase (1-2%, 1-5 mm), augite (0-1%, 1-2 mm), and traces of hypersthene, olivine, and opaque minerals in a microfelty to pilotaxitic groundmass. * * * In the adjacent Nabesna B-5 quadrangle (Lowe and others, 1982) the andesite and basaltic andesite flows of their unit QTaf are mostly equivalent to Tanada shield lavas.
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References Cited

[1] Geologic map of the Nabesna B-6 Quadrangle, south-central Alaska, 1993

Richter, D. H., Smith, J. G., Schmoll, H. R., and Smith, R. L., 1993, Geologic map of the Nabesna B-6 Quadrangle, south-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geological Quadrangle Map GQ 1688, unpaged, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.