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Mitsuishisan Volcanic Products

Synonym: Mitsuishisan volcano

• Type locality: Mount Mitsuishi, Shizukuishi city, Iwate county, Iwate prefecture
• Volcanic rocks
• Pleistocene - Holocene

• Lithofacies: Clinopyroxene orthopyroxene andesite

• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kakkondagawa Pyroclastic Rocks)

• Distribution: Mount Mitsuishi, Shizukuishi city, Iwate county, Iwate pref.

• Suto and Ishii (1987) Geology of the Shizukuishi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 142p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)