Sample: 95SJP4B

Sample ID:	95SJP4B ^[1]
Station ID:	95SJP4B
AT Num:
Volcano:	Skookum Creek
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:	1995-00-00
Sample type 1:	Lava
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Final unit:
Text Description:	A silicic block from a baked portion of the dome C carapace unit at Site 7. Fine grained, holocrystalline, porphyritic with a matrix of plagioclase, opaque, apatite?, orthopyroxene and alteration. Plagioclase phenocrysts are up to 1.8 mm and often are strongly zoned (both normal and oscillatory). Orthopyroxene phenocrysts are up to 0.75 mm; many grains have a brown coating (oxidation?) and are intensely pleochroic. Opaque phenocrysts are up to 0.3 mm.
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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5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex: Miami University (Ohio) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 547 p.

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