Serpentinized peridotites with or without plagioclase are distributed in the Setogawa, Kobotoke, Hayama and Mineoka Groups, the eastern extension of the Shimanto belt, encircling the northern end of the Izu Massif. They can be collectively named, therefore, “the Circum-Izu Massif serpentinites”.
Serpentinites in the Kobotoke Group of the Sasago area are derived from harzburgite and lherzolite with or without plagioclase. Olivine, orthopyroxene and plagioclase were almost completely altered. Chemical compositions of chromian diopside, chromian spinel and Ca-rich amphibole are equivalent to those in peridotites from the Mineoka belt, and are slightly but distinctly different from those in peridotites from the Setogawa belt and the Hayama belt. Ca/(Ca+Mg+Fe
*) (Fe
*, total iron) atomic ratio of chromian diopside in the Kobotoke-Mineoka peridotites is lower by 0.01 on average than that in the Setogawa-Hayama peridotites. Ca-amphiboles of the former peridotites are more enriched in Al and Na than those of the latter peridotites. Peridotites of the Setogawa and the Hayama belts are also characterized by a higher abundance of Ca-rich amphiboles than the Kobotoke-Mineoka ones. These petrographical differences are due to the lower equilibrium temperature and higher H
2O availability of the upper mantle from which peridotites in the Setogawa and the Hayama belts were derived.
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