diff --git a/src/sliceview/base.spec.ts b/src/sliceview/base.spec.ts
index 9bec5c3011..62fbc8a0c9 100644
--- a/src/sliceview/base.spec.ts
+++ b/src/sliceview/base.spec.ts
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@
  */
 
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
+import type { ProjectionParameters } from "#src/projection_parameters.js";
+import type { TransformedSource } from "#src/sliceview/base.js";
 import {
   estimateSliceAreaPerChunk,
+  forEachVisibleVolumetricChunk,
   getNearIsotropicBlockSize,
 } from "#src/sliceview/base.js";
 import { ChunkLayout } from "#src/sliceview/chunk_layout.js";
@@ -200,3 +203,61 @@ describe("estimateSliceAreaPerChunk", () => {
     }
   });
 });
+
+describe("forEachVisibleVolumetricChunk", () => {
+  it("does not clamp zeroed display-dim positions to the chunk origin", () => {
+    // `xy` slice view of a rank-3 volume whose origin is *not* at (0, 0, 0)
+    const tsource = {
+      source: {
+        spec: {
+          rank: 3,
+          chunkDataSize: Uint32Array.of(1024, 1024, 1),
+          // Stack origin at voxel (64056, 33042, 20) -> nonzero chunk bounds.
+          lowerChunkBound: Float32Array.of(62, 32, 20),
+          upperChunkBound: Float32Array.of(64, 34, 21),
+        },
+      },
+      layerRank: 3,
+      // The following data is prepared as would be done by
+      // `getVolumetricTransformedSources`: display-dim rows (x, y) are zeroed and
+      // z maps identically from global z with no translation.
+      fixedLayerToChunkTransform: Float32Array.of(
+        0,
+        0,
+        0,
+        0,
+        0,
+        0,
+        0,
+        0,
+        1,
+        0,
+        0,
+        0,
+      ),
+      // Display dims (x, y) get infinite clip bounds; only z is finite.
+      nonDisplayLowerClipBound: Float32Array.of(-Infinity, -Infinity, 20),
+      nonDisplayUpperClipBound: Float32Array.of(Infinity, Infinity, 21),
+      chunkLayout: new ChunkLayout(vec3.fromValues(1, 1, 1), mat4.create(), 3),
+      lowerChunkDisplayBound: vec3.fromValues(62, 32, 20),
+      upperChunkDisplayBound: vec3.fromValues(64, 34, 21),
+      chunkDisplayDimensionIndices: [0, 1, 2],
+      curPositionInChunks: new Float32Array(3),
+      // Sentinel so an early return (source excluded) can't masquerade as a pass.
+      fixedPositionWithinChunk: Uint32Array.of(999, 999, 999),
+    } as unknown as TransformedSource;
+
+    forEachVisibleVolumetricChunk(
+      {
+        // x/y are irrelevant (transform rows zeroed); z is at slice 20.
+        globalPosition: Float32Array.of(70000, 40000, 20),
+        viewProjectionMat: mat4.create(),
+      } as unknown as ProjectionParameters,
+      new Float32Array(0),
+      tsource,
+      () => {},
+    );
+
+    expect(Array.from(tsource.fixedPositionWithinChunk)).toEqual([0, 0, 0]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/sliceview/base.ts b/src/sliceview/base.ts
index 7b2e5a7857..1ddfb3a684 100644
--- a/src/sliceview/base.ts
+++ b/src/sliceview/base.ts
@@ -182,7 +182,11 @@ function updateFixedCurPositionInChunks<
   globalPosition: Float32Array,
   localPosition: Float32Array,
 ): boolean {
-  const { curPositionInChunks, fixedPositionWithinChunk } = tsource;
+  const {
+    curPositionInChunks,
+    fixedPositionWithinChunk,
+    chunkDisplayDimensionIndices,
+  } = tsource;
   const { nonDisplayLowerClipBound, nonDisplayUpperClipBound } = tsource;
   const { rank, chunkDataSize, lowerChunkBound, upperChunkBound } =
     tsource.source.spec;
@@ -218,6 +222,18 @@ function updateFixedCurPositionInChunks<
       }
       return false;
     }
+    if (chunkDisplayDimensionIndices.includes(chunkDim)) {
+      // This function computes only the *fixed* (non-display) part of the
+      // position.  The rows of `fixedLayerToChunkTransform` corresponding to
+      // display dimensions are zeroed, so `x` is a placeholder 0 rather than a
+      // real coordinate; the actual chunk index is filled in by the caller's
+      // iteration over the display subspace.  Clamping the placeholder to
+      // `lowerChunkBound` would, for a source with a non-zero
+      // `spec.lowerVoxelBound`, force `chunk` past `x` and leave a negative
+      // `fixedPositionWithinChunk`.
+      fixedPositionWithinChunk[chunkDim] = 0;
+      continue;
+    }
     const chunkSize = chunkDataSize[chunkDim];
     // Given that clip bounds are already tested above, clamp chunk index to its
     // bounds, to ensure floating-point imprecision does not result in an