Sample: 94SJP3

Sample ID:	94SJP3 ^[1]
Station ID:	94SJP3
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Volcano:	Skookum Creek
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:	1994-00-00
Sample type 1:	Lava
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Text Description:	25-30 foot thick flow at the base of Site 12. Directly overlies 94SJP2 dipping at N60E, 45W. Fine grained, holocrystalline, trachytic, intergranular, seriate porphyritic with a matrix of green alteration, plagioclase, opaques, and clinopyroxene. Plagioclase phenocrysts (An40-An58) are up to 2 mm and some of the largest grains are zoned and riddled with alteration and clinopyroxene inclusions. Clinopyroxene phenocrysts are up to 0.25 mm. An altered phase is present (olivine?).
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References Cited

[1] Geochemical variation in the less than 5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex, 1997

Preece, S. J., 1997, Geochemical variation in the less than 5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex: Miami University (Ohio) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 547 p.

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