Sample: 95SJP4A

Sample ID:	95SJP4A ^[1]
Station ID:	95SJP4A
AT Num:
Volcano:	Skookum Creek
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector:	Preece, S. J.
Date sampled:	1995-00-00
Sample type 1:	Lava
Color:
Final unit:
Text Description:	A silicic block from a baked portion of the carapace of dome C unit at Site 7. Fine grained, hypocrystalline, porphyritic with a matrix of colorless glass, plagioclase, opaque, orthopyroxene and apatite?. Plagioclase phenocrysts (An51) are up to 2.0 mm and most are strongly zoned. Opaque phenocrysts are up to 0.2 mm. Orthopyroxene phenocrysts are up to 0.68 mm and are intensely pleochroic; some have opaque inclusions.
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5 Ma Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska, with an emphasis on the Skookum Creek volcanic complex: Miami University (Ohio) unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 547 p.

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