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Kinkasan Metamorphic Rocks

• High T/P metamorphic rocks
• Metamorphism: Cretaceous

• Lithofacies: Hornblende schist, Ca-garnet schist, Biotite schist, Clinopyroxene schist, Quartz schist, Tremolite schist

• Distribution: Kinkazan-seto - Niozaki, Mount Kinkazan, Ishinomaki city, Miyagi pref.

• Takizawa et al. (1974) Geology of the Kinkasan District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 62p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)