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Wariyama Metamorphic Rocks
Invalid synonym: Wariyama Formation
- Type locality: Wariyama pass, Hiranuki, Kakuda city, Miyagi prefecture
- High P/T metamorphic rocks
- Protolith: Accretionary complex
- Deposition: Cambrian
- Metamorphism: late Cambrian
- Lithofacies: Slate, Pelitic schist
- Lithofacies (Minor): Psammitic schist, Greenschist, Calcareous schist
- Lithofacies (Protolith): Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
- Lithofacies (Protolith, Minor): Limestone
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Wariyama pass, Hiranuki, Kakuda city, Miyagi pref.;Kanahorisawa, Sakatsuta, Kakuda city, Miyagi pref.; Mount Nanaune, Kakuda city, Miyagi pref.; Tsukinoki, Shibata city, Shibata county, Miyagi pref.; Watari city - Yamamoto city, Watari county, Miyagi pref.; Sumikama, Shibata city, Shibata county, Miyagi pref.
- Tsuchiya et al. (2014) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.120, no.2, pp.37-51 DOI
- Tsuchiya et al. (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, Supplement, pp.154-167 DOI
- Fujita et al. (1988) Geology of the Kakuda District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 99p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)
- Oide and Fujita (1975) Geology of the Iwanuma District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 27p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)