The late Cretaceous Koto Rhyolite is divided into two groups according to the succession. Each group forms an igneous cycle. The older group consists of the Kaiwara Welded Tuff and the Hatasho Quartz Porphyry, and their relationship is transitional in the field showing their co-magmatic origin. The Kaiwara Welded Tuff erupted apparently first as vesiculated magma from the top of the magma_??_reservoir followed by the intrusive phase of the Hatasho Quartz Porphyry. There are enrichment of phenocrysts such as quartz and alkali feldspar in the Kaiwara Welded Tuff, whereas plagioclase phenocrysts are more commo in the Hatasho Quartz Porphyry. The K/Rb ratios of the whole rocks are larger in the Hatasho Quartz Porphyry than in the Kaiwara Welded Tuff.
The younger group consisting of the Yatsuoyama Pyroclastic Rock and the Inugami Granite Porphyry is also considered to be of co-magmatic origin although obvious intimate relationship of the two units could not be observed in the field. The differences between them in the composition of phenocryst minerals and K/Rb ratio of the whole rocks are similar to and somewhat larger than those between the Kaiwara Welded Tuff and the Hatasho Quartz Porphyry.
The Inugami Granite Porphyry of the last igneous activity intruded along the ring faults whose center subsided stepwise and resulted in a double ring dike about 30km across. Thus the Koto Cauldron was composed.
Natural remanent magnetism through the Koto Rhyolite suggests a clock-wise movement of the area during its igneous activity.
