Mafic enclaves densely concentrated in the upper part of a vertically zoned felsic magma chamber: The Kurobegawa granitic pluton, Hida Mountain Range, central Japan

2004 ◽  
Vol 116 (7) ◽  
pp. 788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajime Wada ◽  
Satoru Harayama ◽  
Yoshiaki Yamaguchi
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisatoshi Ito ◽  
Yoshiko Adachi ◽  
Aitor Cambeses ◽  
Fernando Bea ◽  
Mayuko Fukuyama ◽  
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AbstractThe Quaternary Kurobegawa Granite, central Japan, is not only the youngest known granitic pluton exposed on the Earth’s surface, it is one of few localities where both Quaternary volcanics and related plutons are well exposed. Here, we present new zircon U–Pb ages together with whole rock and mineral geochemical data, revealing that the Kurobegawa Granite is a resurgent pluton that was emplaced following the caldera-forming eruption of the Jiigatake Volcanics at 1.55 ± 0.09 Ma. Following the eruption, the remnant magma chamber progressively cooled forming the voluminous Kurobegawa pluton in the upper crust (~ 6 km depth) until ~ 0.7 Ma when resurgence caused rapid uplift and erosion in the region. This is the first study to document the detailed spatiotemporal evolution of resurgent pluton for a Quaternary caldera system. Our new findings may contribute significantly to understanding the fate of active caldera systems that can produce supereruptions.


2011 ◽  
Vol 162 (5) ◽  
pp. 1063-1077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Yuguchi ◽  
Kenji Amano ◽  
Tadahiko Tsuruta ◽  
Tohru Danhara ◽  
Tadao Nishiyama

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