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Yarigatake Metamorphic Rocks

Probably a part of Renge Metamorphic Rocks of Renge Belt

It had been define as a member of Hida Gaien Belt but was separated by re-definition of Hida Gaien Belt.

Invalid synonym: Yarigatake Crystalline Schist

• Type locality: Mount Yarigatake - Hidanokkoshi, Matsumoto city, Nagano prefecture - Takayama city, Gifu prefecture
• Metamorphic rocks
• Paleozoic?
• Correlation: Gamata Crystalline Schist, Iodake Crystalline Schist

• Lithofacies: Epidote actinolite albite schist
• Lithofacies (Minor): Tourmaline-bearing garnet biotite muscovite schist
• Lithofacies (Protolith): Accretionary complex?
• Lithofacies (Protolith): Mafic volcanic rocks
• Lithofacies (Protolith, Minor): Sandstone

• Distribution (East - West): 600 m
• Distribution (South - North): 350 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Maehotakadake Welded Tuff)

• Distribution: Mount Yarigatake - Hidanokkoshi, Matsumoto city, Nagano pref. - Takayama city, Gifu pref.

• Harayama (2015) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.121, no.10, pp.373-389, DOI
• Harayama et al. (1991) Geology of the Yarigatake District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 190p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)