Numerous basaltic lavas and dikes of the Pliocene have been known in the western part of Hokkaido, but little petrographic work has been carried out on those rocks so far.
The basalts designated as the basin type in this paper, are distributed around the Takikawa-Fukagawa basin and have a unique petrographic feature. Olivine and augite phenocrysts are set in the intergranular or intersertal groundmass which is composed of plagioclase, augite, olivine, alkali feldspar, magnetite, apatite and glass, whereas phenocyrstic plagioclase is completely absent. Chemically those basalts belong to the alkali olvine basalt suite, but are characterized by high alumina content. The degree of silica-undersaturation is moderate, and normative Hy is usually present only in small amount or sometimes normative Ne is calculated instead.
On the contrary, the Hamamasu basalts, Etaidake basalts and other basaltic rocks distributed to the west of the basin (Fig. 1), belong to the different type of basalt, slightly silica-understaturated, accompanying the calc-alkali andesite (Oba et al., 1966).
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