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Sample: 74-ALe-66

Sample ID: 74-ALe-66 [1]
Station ID: 74-ALe-66
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Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date sampled: 1974-00-00
Sample type 1: Lava
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Text Description: Unassigned rocks, older rhyolite dome (Pleistocene). Pinkish-gray, sparsely porphyritic rhyolite that contains 1-2% phenocrysts of plagioclase, opaque minerals, and possibly some altered mafic minerals, in microfelty groundmass of feldspar. Only exposed in one locality near northwest corner of quadrangle. * * * Whole-rock K-Ar age is 1.23+/-0.07 Ma.
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References Cited

[1] Geologic map of the Gulkana A-1 Quadrangle, south-central Alaska, 1994

Richter, D. H., Duffield, W. A., Sawyer, D. A., Schmoll, H. R., and Ratte, J. C., 1994, Geologic map of the Gulkana A-1 Quadrangle, south-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Geological Quadrangle Map GQ 1728, unpaged, 1 sheet, scale 1:63,360.