| Description |
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| Material: | Rock |
| Classification: | Igneous |
| Field Name: | Tuff |
| Description: | Unsorted pumiceous vitric to weakly vesicular lithic clasts ~1cm down to fine ash. Basaltic composition, fines strongly palagonitized. Well indurated tuff. Weathers dark brown. An example of the "yellow palagonite tuff" of the early Deception Island volcano, most likely pre-caldera. One of the shield-building units (ARS v. 48, p.316). Plagioclase, olivine, clinopyroxene |
| Age (min): | Not Provided |
| Age (max): | Not Provided |
| Collection Method: | Not Provided |
| Collection Method Description: | Not Provided |
| Size: | Not Provided |
| Geological Age: | Quaternary |
| Geological Unit: | Not Provided |
| Comment: | Not Provided |
| Purpose: | Not Provided |
| Geolocation |
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| Latitude (WGS84): | -62.917 |
| Longitude (WGS84): | -60.533 |
| Northing (m) (UTM NAD83): | Not Provided |
| Easting (m) (UTM NAD83): | Not Provided |
| Zone: | Not Provided |
| Vertical Datum: | Not Provided |
| Elevation Start: | Not Provided |
| Elevation End: | Not Provided |
| Nav Type: | Not Provided |
| Physiographic Feature: | Not Provided |
| Name Of Physiographic Feature: | Deception Island |
| Location Description: | Not Provided |
| Locality: | Macaroni Point |
| Locality Description: | Not Provided |
| Country: | Not Provided |
| State/Province: | Not Provided |
| County: | Not Provided |
| City: | Not Provided |
| Collection |
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| Field Program/Cruise: | Not Provided |
| Platform Type: | Not Provided |
| Platform Name: | Not Provided |
| Platform Description: | Not Provided |
| Launch Type: | Not Provided |
| Launch Platform Name: | Not Provided |
| Launch ID: | Not Provided |
| Collector/Chief Scientist: | LeMasurier, Wesley |
| Collector/Chief Scientist Detail: | Not Provided |
| Collection Start Date: | Not Provided |
| Collection End Date: | Not Provided |
| Curation |
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| Current Archive: | Polar Rock Repository, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ohio State University |
| Current Archive Contact Details: | Curator |
| Original Archive: | Not Provided |
| Original Archive Contact Details: | Not Provided |
| Related Samples |
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Parents: | No Parents | | Siblings: | No Siblings |
| Children: | No Children |
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