Mochigase Granite

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Mochigase Granite

Type locality: Mochigase town, Tottori city, Tottori prefecture
Plutonic rocks
Volcanic arc type granitoids
Cretaceous
Intruded in: Sangun Metamorphic Rocks

Lithofacies: Biotite adamellite

Upper limit: Unconformity (Koge Conglomerate Member, Kuroiwa Basalt Lava)

Mochigase stage intrusive rocks
[ Young ]
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Mochigase Granite
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[ Old ]

Sanin Belt
[ Young ]
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Tamagawa stage volcanic rocks
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Younger Inbi stage intrusive rocks
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Older Inbi stage intrusiv rocks
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Inbi stage volcanic rocks
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Mochigase stage intrusive rocks
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Mochigase stage volcanic rocks
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[ Old ]

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

Distribution: Mochigase town, Tottori city, Tottori pref.; Kurootoge pass, Tottori pref. - Okayama pref.; Kamo town - Awa, Tsuyama city, Okayama pref.

Yamada (1966) Chizu, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 69p. (in Japanese with English abstract 11p.)