Sample: 94SJP78

Sample ID:	94SJP78 ^[1]
Station ID:	94SJP78
AT Num:
Volcano:	Skookum Creek
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:	1994-00-00
Sample type 1:	Lava
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Final unit:
Text Description:	At least a 20' thick flow. Lowest sample from South Pass. Fine grained, vesicular, hypocrystalline, intersertal, intergranular, seriate porphyritic with a matrix of brown glass, opaque, clinopyroxene, plagioclase, and orthopyroxene?. Plagioclase phenocrysts (An43-An59) are up to 1.25 mm and occasionally have sieve textured zones or oscillatory zoning. Orthopyroxene phenocrysts are up to 1.0 mm, some have clinopyroxene rims.
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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5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex: Miami University (Ohio) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 547 p.

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