Dredged Trachyte and Basalt from Kodiak Seamount and the Adjacent Aleutian Trench, Alaska

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Forbes, Robert B., Hoskin, Charles M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1969
• Subjects: Kodiak Seamount; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.166.3904.502; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.166.3904.502

Blocky fragments of aegirine-augite trachyte (with accompanying ice-rafted 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 seamo...