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Sample 27-172A

NavDat sample number 11096 · TRACHYTE

Sample

Sample ID27-172A
Rock nameTRACHYTE
Rock typeVOLCANIC
CompositionINTERMEDIATE
MaterialIGNEOUS
Commentstrongly metasomatized; holocrystalline, porphyritic; groundmass of sanidine microlites, cryptocrystalline albite and anorthoclase is very fine grained to aphanitic and composes 40 to 70% of rock; phenocrysts are sanidine, altered feldspathoid and completely altered pyroxene

Location

Latitude44.4653
Longitude-104.411
LocationBear Lodge Mountains
State / provinceWyoming

Age

Age (Ma)ErrorMinMaxGeologic ageDated by
44 38 50

Analyses

Whole rock

ItemValueStd. dev.UnitMethod
SIO255.49WT%XRF
AL2O323.47WT%XRF
FE2O3T2.47WT%XRF
MGO0.26WT%XRF
CAO0.11WT%XRF
NA2O0.37WT%XRF
K2O13.11WT%XRF
TIO20.23WT%XRF
P2O50.03WT%XRF
MNO0.11WT%XRF
TOTAL95.65WT%XRF

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