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Asakusa volcano

• Type locality: Mount Asakusadake, Uonuma city, Niigata prefecture - Tadami city, Minamiaizu county, Fukushima prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Stratovolcano
• early Pleistocene (1.6 Ma; 1.64, 1.62, 1.58, 1.54 Ma, K-Ar)

• Lithofacies: Basalt, Andesite
• Lithofacies (Minor): Dacite

• Eruptive volume: ca. 6 km³

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• Distribution: Mount Asakusadake, Uonuma city, Niigata pref. - Tadami city, Minamiaizu county, Fukushima pref.

• Takahashi et al. (2004) Geology of the Suhara District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 80p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)