Trip A3
Ilmenite-series pink and gray grnitoids
and felsic / mafic magma interaction
across the Cretaceous Inner Zone Batholith
of SW Japan (at 134E)



 

Dismembered blocks of syn-plutonic mafic dike with chilled margin at the contact with the host granite but lacking at the contact with the injection of leucocratic veins between the blocks. (Location: Tanoura Peninsula, Shodoshima Island).
A chain of active quarries of Aji granite as viewed
from southwest. (Location: Aji Town, Kagawa Prefecture).
Heterogeneous tonalite layer with various types of elongated mafic pillows and leucocratic pipe projecting upward into overlying basally chilled diorite. (Location: Tanoura Peninsula, Shodoshima Island).