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Shinobu Diorite Ishida, 1959

• Type locality: Shinobu town, Wajima city, Ishikawa prefecture
• Plutonic rocks
• Magma chamber, a source of the dikes intruded nearby
• Oligocene (28.9 Ma, K-Ar)
• Intruded in: Konosuyama Formation

• Lithofacies (Center): Biotite clinopyroxene hornblende diorite, Gabbro
• Lithofacies (Margin): Diorite porphyry, Andesite

• Distribution (Radius): ca 1.5 km
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Higashiinnai Formation)

• Distribution: Shinobu town, Wajima city, Ishikawa pref.

• Kano (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.10, pp.781-803 DOI
• Yoshikawa et al. (2002) Geology of the Suzumisaki, Noto-iida and Horyuzan District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 76p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)