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Sample 78C11

NavDat sample number 6713 · ANDESITE

Sample

Sample ID78C11
Rock nameANDESITE
Rock typeVOLCANIC
CompositionINTERMEDIATE
MaterialIGNEOUS
Collected byR.G. Luedke, 1978
Commentmedium-gray slightly porphyritic rock containing small feldspar phenocrysts in a dense holocrystalline groundmass

Location

Latitude41.8014
Longitude-121.843
LocationSiskiyou Co., CA
State / provinceCalifornia
Location commentCollected within a road-metal quarry in faulted ? flank flows on the west side of Sheep Mountain shield volcano.

Age

Age (Ma)ErrorMinMaxGeologic ageDated by
1.2 1.13 1.27

Analyses

No chemical analyses are stored for this sample.

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