In order to characterize the geochemical map of soil elements, major and minor elements were determined for Kuroboku soils, brown forest soils and alluvial soils collected in the southern Kanto district, Japan. The effects of biological accumulation on the soil elements are evaluated with the analyses of several plant materials. Compared to the crustal abundance, the plant materials are often enriched in P, Sb, Zn, Cd, Cu, Ca, Pb, Bi, Mn, Sr, K, Mo, As and Sn, but depleted in Al, Ti, Fe,Li, Cs, Tl, Be, Co, Cr, Ni, V, Ga, La, Ce, Th, U, Y and Zr. Most of the elements enriched in plant materials are generally dominant in the uppermost soil layers, reflecting the biological accumulation process. Whereas the elements depleted in the plant materials are clearly lower in the upper soil layers than the deeper one. This may be caused by the diagenetic transportation and the diluting effects by soil water and organic materials which accumulated during soil forming process. It is assumed that the parent material of the studied Kuroboku soils originated from the atomospheric transport materials such as altered tephra, reworked crustal materials with the fine particles of aeolian dust. The brown forest soils are composed mainly of altered basement rocks, and a small amount of the atomospheric transport materials. Both clastic materials derived from basement rocks and the atomospheric transport materials are significant sources of the alluvial soils. Compared to the noncultivated soils, cultivated soils are dominant in K and P through its suppying the manures. There is a clear difference in the chemical composition of the river sediments and the soils. In some samples collected around the highly industrialized areas, recent anthropogenic pollution for heavy metals are recognized. The geochemical mapping according to analyses of the soil itself will be useful for evaluation of recent environmental pollution and estimation of background level concentration of soil elements.

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Sulfur isotopic ratio,δ³⁴SCDT, was determined on 50 sulfide samples from the Cretaceous (with one Paleogene locality) granitic terrain of the Kitakami Mountains, and the data, together with 8 analyses already published, were examined in view of the ore genesis. The studied ore deposits and quarries are 37. The δ³⁴S values are highest in molybdenite deposits, as -0.5 to +3.6 ‰δ³⁴S. The δ³⁴S values of base metal deposits, which are mostly skarn type, vary more widely than those of the molybdnite deposits, ranging from -3.4 to +5.5 ‰δ³⁴S. Tungsten and gold deposits, mostly of vein type, are hosted in the intruded sedimentary rocks and have low and widely varying δ³⁴S values (+2.8～-16.7 ‰). Influence of biogenic sulfur from the Permian host pelitic rocks is considered for the low values of the Higashi-iwai (Au-W) and Masunai (Au) deposits. The δ³⁴S values of the granitoid-hosted molybdenite are averaged as +0.7 ‰, which is similar to +1.5 ‰δ³⁴S of the averaged rock sulfur value of the Tono and Miyako plutons. This and lower δ³⁴S values of the Kitakami sulfides, as compared with those of the Mo Province of Southwest Japan, may be correlated to a low fO2 magnetite-series character in the Kitakami Mountains. The intrusion-related gold deposits are divided into high-Au/Ag type with low contents of associated sulfides and low Au/Ag type with high contents of the associated sulfides. The former has -13.8～+2.8 ‰δ³⁴S, indicating biogenic sulfur from the host sediments in some ore deposits, while the latter values, being -0.8～+5.5 ‰δ³⁴S, are more close to δ³⁴S value of granitoid sulfur, implying higher contribution of magmatic sulfur for the low Au/Ag type.

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In order to evaluate the effect of the Japan Sea opening upon the mantle wedge beneath the SW Japan arc, rare earth elements (REE) compositions were determined for primitive high magnesian andesites (HMAs) and a basalt from the Setouchi volcanic belt in the SW Japan arc. The older HMA from the Osaka area (13.9 Ma) has higher light rare earth elements (LREE) and lower heavy rare earth elements (HREE) concentrations than the younger HMA from the Shodo-Shima area (12.7 Ma). To explain these REE patterns, mixing calculations were conducted. The results show that 30 ~ 70 % of the asthenospheric component (MORB source like materials) and 70 ~ 30 % of the pre-existing mantle,which is estimated from the Osaka HMA, can account for the REE patterns of the Shodo-Shima HMA and basalt. This result may suggest a replacement of a pre-existing mantle wedge by an asthenospheric component, which is related to the Japan Sea opening.

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The author studied modes of occurrences on plagioclase twinning laws in various granitic and quartz-feldspathic metamorphic rocks, and revealed that frequencies of C twins (all twinning laws excluding albite and pericline laws) versus pericline twin are discriminative criteria of geological setting. Plagioclase twinning law in the granitoids in Ryoke-Sanyo Belts shows wide range of C twin frequency (4-44%) with various pericline twin frequency (10-38%) (for short, RS type), and that in the granitoids in Hidaka Metamorphic Belt low to intermediate C twin frequency (0-20%) with wide pericline twin frequency (2-34%) (HD type). Range of these may be one discriminative area of plagioclase twinning laws for the granitic magmatism in subduction tectonics along continental margin or island arc. On the other hand, frequency of plagioclase twinning laws of some granitic rocks is out of this area. The area showing low frequency of pericline twinning law against various frequency of C twin has one possibility of relating to postorogenic or anorogenic magmatism within the continent. Difference of these plagioclase twinning law frequencies, especially difference of frequency of pericline twinning law, is explained by various shear stress due to various viscosity of magma. The viscosity of magma is controlled by amounts of melt remaining during crystallization, and this difference of the melt amounts is caused from characteristic of magma related with various tectonics. Low-grade metamorphic rocks (greenschist facies to low grade amphibolite facies) contain small amounts of pericline twinning law. High-grade metamorphic rocks (high-grade amphibolite facies to granulite facies) show low to moderate frequency of pericline twinning law. Sheared highgrade metamorphic rocks have abundant pericline twinning law. These results are conformable to the previous experimental results which show that pericline twinning law is mostly formed under shear stress and high-temperature conditions.

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