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Kumano Granite Porphyry Kawakami and Hoshi, 2007

• Type locality: route 42, Owase - Kumano city, Mie prefecture
• Sub-type locality: downstream of Kumano river, Shingu city, Wakyama prefecture
• Plutonic rocks
• Granitoids of Outer zone, Southwest Japan
• Large scale felsic igneous rocks associated with caldera formation
• Felsic volcan-plutonic complex
• Sill intruded after of collapse caldera
• middle Miocene (14.4 - 14.3 Ma, K-Ar; 15.1, 14.3 Ma, FT)
• Intruded by: Fudodani Granite
• Intruded in: Kumano Group, Intrusive pyroclastic rocks

• Lithofacies: S-type (Ilmenite series)
• Lithofacies: Orthopyroxene-biotite granite porphyry

------ Transitional, ~~~~~~ Intrusive, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Ichiura, Isozaki village, Kumano city, Mie pref.
• Distribution (North unit): Kumano city - Owase city, Mie pref.
• Distribution (South unit): Shingu city, Mie pref.

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