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Makihata Body

• Plutonic rocks
• Miocene
• Intruded in: Cretaceous granite

• Lithofacies: Granodiorite
• Lithofacies (Xenolith): Hornblende gabbro, Diabase

• Distribution: Mount Makihata - Shimizu pass, Minamiuonuma city, Niigata pref. - Minakami city, Tone county, Gunma pref.; Yubiso river - Mount Shiragamon, Minkakami city, Tone county, Gunma pref.

• Chihara et al. (1981) Geology of the Echigo-Yuzawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 108p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)