Sample: K-2554


Sample ID: K-2554 [1]
Station ID: K-2554
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Volcano: Snowy
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Eruption:
Collector: Unknown, Unknown
Date sampled:
Sample type 1: Lava
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Text Description: NE Snowy volcano. Second flow of stack to north; 3000-ft rim facing Rainbow Race Glacier; 4.9 km NNW of Peak 7090. Sample has a whole-rock K-Ar calculated age of 171 +/- 8 ka (Hildreth and others, 2001). Sample in thin section is 25-30% plagioclase to 2.5 mm, 10% subequal amounts of clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene, to 3 mm, 1-2% oxides, to 0.4 mm, contains no olivine, no sieved plagioclase, and does contain oxide-pyroxene-plagioclase aggregates.
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References Cited

[1] Snowy Mountain: A pair of small andesite-dacite stratovolcanoes in Katmai National Park, 2001

Hildreth, E. W., Fierstein, Judy, Lanphere, M. A., and Siems, D. F., 2001, Snowy Mountain: A pair of small andesite-dacite stratovolcanoes in Katmai National Park: in Gough, L. P. and Wilson, F. H., (eds.), Geologic studies in Alaska by the U.S. Geological Survey, 1999, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper PP 1633, p. 13-34.
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