Sample: 94SJP88A

Sample ID:	94SJP88A ^[1]
Station ID:	94SJP88D
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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:	Outcrop of 10-25' thick basaltic andesite flows on the east side of Goat Creek. Fine grained, vesicular, holocrystalline, seriate porphyritic, oxidized with a matrix of mesostasis, plagioclase, and microlites. Plagioclase phenocrysts (An47-An62) are up to 2.3 mm, and occasionally have sieve textured zones, normal zoning, and/or resorbed edges. Olivine phenocrysts are up to 1.05 mm, and have black coronas, resorption embayments and alteration. May be some pyroxene present.
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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5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex: Miami University (Ohio) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 547 p.

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