The Akima, Aima-gawa and Kennomine formations of the Neogene system are distributed between the Quaternary Asama and Haruna volcanoes, which occupy the south-western part of Gunma Prefecture. The Pliocene Kennomine formation overlies unconformably the Akima and Aima-gawa formations of the Upper Miocene time (Akima Collaborative Research Group, 1975).
These formations mainly consist of pyroclastic rocks and volcanic rocks which occur in the form of lava flows and intrusive masses. The main part of these volcanic rocks is made of two pyroxene andesites of hypersthenic rock series, while a little amount of siliceous basaltic rocks of the same rock series are also observed in the early stage of volcanism in this district.
Twenty representative andesites and basalts are chemically analysed and
87Sr/
86Sr ratios are determined for five andesites. They are characterized by low alkali contents, especially low potassium contents. The AFM diagram, (FeO+0.9×Fe
2O
3)/MgO-SiO
2 diagram and (Na
2O+ K
2O)-SiO
2 diagram show that andesites and basalts correspond to those of calc-alkalic type with low alkali contents and those of low alkali tholeiitic type respectively. These volcanic rocks have low K
2O/Na
2O ratios resembling to those of volcanics of pigeonitic rock series from Izu-Hakone region.
Five andesites have
87Sr/
86Sr ratios ranging from 0.7041 to 0.7043 and the average is 0.7042. These ratios are similar to those of volcanic rocks of the L zone recently proposed by Shuto (1974a, 1974b) and Shuto and Kagami (1975).
Considering from the results of the present work, it may be concluded that the genesis of volcanic rocks in the above formations can not be ascribed to the contamination with granitic material in magma and that andesites are derived by fractional crystallization of certain basic andesitic (basaltic andesitic) magma probably originated from the upper mantle material presumably of peridotitic composition.
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