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Text Description: Streamcut shows measured section. Highlights: base is white alluvium, there are several thin pumice beds (some white, some pink, some tan), 12cm PF, capped by soil Bulk sample of possible PF. From Gardner and others (2007): Scoria. Median density Phi= -1.5 ; mm= 2.83 . Sorting= 3.42 . Coarse mode of grain size Phi= -2.5 ; mm= 5.66 . Fine mode of grain size Phi= 5.5 ; mm= 0.02 . Lithics wt%= 27.8 References:  Volcanism on Unimak Island, Alaska, USA: a special focus on Shishaldin and Fisher volcanoes Eruption and deposition of the Fisher Tuff (Alaska): evidence for the evolution of pyroclastic flows |
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