Sample: 94SJP54

Sample ID:	94SJP54 ^[1]
Station ID:	94SJP54
AT Num:
Volcano:	Skookum Creek
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:	1994-00-00
Sample type 1:	Lava
Color:
Final unit:
Text Description:	At least 50’ thick flow at Site 3. Fine-grained, vesicular, holocrystalline, intergranular, seriate porphyritic with a matrix of mesostasis, opaque and yellow alteration. Plagioclase phenocrysts (An31 - An54) are up to 2.0 mm and a few have sieve textured cores or intermediate zones, complex zoning or resorption embayments; one grain is rounded with a tooth-like overgrowth. Orthopyroxene phenocrysts are up to 0.9 mm and have clinopyroxene rims, and a few have opaque inclusions. Clinopyroxene phenocrysts are up to 0.15 mm.
Sample Location:

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5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex: Miami University (Ohio) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 547 p.

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