The dolomite bearing limestone of Permian is distributed extensively near Mt. Funafuse, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. The dolomite deposit of this area was first surveyed and reported by T. Anzai in 1956 and later by S. Kawata in 1960, who described chiefly about the distribution and quality of the deposit occuring at the area near Konjima and Iodo, between the Embara river and the Kanzaki river.
The writer has studied the geology of Permian of the northern part of Yamagata-gun, Gifu Prefecture since 1960, and has observed some other dolomite deposits occuring west of the Kanzaki river as well as east of the Embara river.
It can be mentioned that the dolomite deposits in the limestone are divided into two types according to their facies. One is white or whitish gray in color and has a vast area of distribution with many intercalations of schalstein and chert, whereas the other is black and accompanied scarcely by non-calcareous rocks, though both are considered to be of the same horizon paleontolo-gically.
The dolomite is observed to turn vertically and horizontally into the country rock of limestone from which some important fossils of Fusulinids such as Pseudofusulina, Acervoschwagerina, Parafusulina, Neoschwagerina, etc. were collected.
Judging from the fossils, the dolomite is featured with middle the Permian because Parafusulina could be collected in abundance from the limestone intercalated in or adjacent to the dolomite.
The dolomite deposits occur in many places in the Permian rocks in Mino Mountainland and Hida Massif, particularly more in Mino than in Hida.
In Mino Mountainland, they distribute from Mt. Funafuse towards Mt. Ibuki with the direction of northeast to southwest and most of them are featured with Parafusulina zone containing Parafusulina. In Hida Massif, however, the distribution of the deposits takes the direction of west to east from Nyukawa towards Shirahone spa and they are also featured with Parafusulina zone containing Pseudofusulina abundantly instead of Parafusulina.
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