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Sawara Granite

• Type locality: Fukuoka prefecture
• Plutonic rocks
• Early Cretaceous (114.0, 105.2 Ma, Rb-Sr; 94.0, 90.0 Ma, U-Pb; 85.0 Ma, K-Ar)
• Main facies: Early Cretaceous (96.6 Ma, Rb-Sr)
• Fine facies: Early Cretaceous (101.2 Ma, Rb-Sr)
• Intruded by: Mitsuse Granite, Fukuoka Granite
• Intruded in: Tagawa Metamorphic Rocks, Itoshima Granodiorite

• Lithofacies: Two-mica granite, Granodiorite

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

• Distribution: east flank of Mount Sangun, Fukuoka pref.; Gokayama, Nakagawa city, Fukuoka pref.

• Yuhara et al. (2019) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.125, no.6, pp.405-420 DOI
• Fukami and Owada (2017) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.123, no.12, pp.1055-1060 DOI
• Kawano and Yuhara (2008) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.114, no.5, pp.218-230 DOI