Sample: 12AKMC033


Sample ID: 12AKMC033 [1]
Station ID: 12AKMC033
AT Num:
Volcano: Akutan
Possible source:
Eruption:
Collector: Coombs, M. L.
Date sampled: 2012-07-30
Sample type 1: Lava
Color:
Final unit: bpba
Text Description: Lava flow 1 down (?) from BJ019 along south side of gully. Nice waterfall cascades over this one from side gully. Massive to platy weathered flow. VERY prominent plag megacrysts. 8 m tall face. Variably glassy. What we sample has med gray gmass. 15% plag, 1-20 mm, 10% cpx, 1mm, 1-3% ol to 3 mm (biggest we've seen), pl-ol clots to 8 mm. some plag megacrysts cored by mafic mineral
Sample Location:

References Cited

[1] The eruptive history, magmatic evolution, and influence of glacial ice at long-lived Akutan volcano, eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 2020

Coombs, M.L., and Jicha, B.R., 2020, The eruptive history, magmatic evolution, and influence of glacial ice at long-lived Akutan volcano, eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska: GSA Bulletin, 29 p., https://doi.org/10.1130/B35667.1.