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South unit

• Plutonic rocks
• Granitoids of Outer zone, Southwest Japan
• Large scale felsic igneous rocks associated with caldera formation
• Felsic volcan-plutonic complex
• Sill intruded after of collapse of Kumano caldera
• middle Miocene (15.6 - 13.3 Ma, FT; 16.7 - 15.5 Ma, U-Pb)

• Lithofacies: S-type (Ilmenite series)
• Lithofacies: Granite porphyry

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

• Distribution: Ichiura, Isozaki village, Kumano city, Mie pref.
• Distribution: Kumano river, Shingu city, Mie pref.; Okuji peninsula, Nachikatsuura city, Higashimuro county, Wakayama pref.

• Nakajima et al. (2010) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.116, no.7, pp.374-387 DOI
• Otsubo et al., (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.9, pp.457-469 DOI
• Iwano et al. (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.8, pp.427-432 DOI
• Orihashi et al. (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.7, pp.366-383 DOI
• Kawakami and Hoshi (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.7, pp.296-309 DOI