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Science 24 October 1969:
Vol. 166. no. 3904, pp. 502 - 504
DOI: 10.1126/science.166.3904.502
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Dredged Trachyte and Basalt from Kodiak Seamount and the Adjacent Aleutian Trench, Alaska

Robert B. Forbes 1 and Charles M. Hoskin 2

1 Department of Geology and Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, College 99701
2 Department of Geology and Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska

Blocky fragments of aegirine-augite trachyte (with accompanying icerafted gravels.) were recovered from the upper slopes of Kodiak Seamount in several dredge hauls. An alkali basalt pillow segment was also dredged from a moatlike depression, at a depth of 5000 meters, near the west base of the seamount. These retrievals confirm the volcanic origin of Kodiak Seamount and further support the view of Engel, Engel, and Havens that the higher elevations of seamounts are composed of alkali basalts or related variants.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Radiometric Ages of Kodiak Seamount and Giacomini Guyot, Gulf of Alaska: Implications for Circum-Pacific Tectonics.
D. L. Turner, D. L. Turner, R. B. Forbes, and C. W. Naeser (1973)
Science 182, 579-581
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