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Late Cretaceous to Paleogene magnetite-series igneous rocks of the Japan Arc
Tract ID |
142pCu7314 |
Country |
Japan |
Commodity |
Cu |
Study area name |
East and Southeast Asia |
Tectonic setting |
island arc |
Deposit type |
porphyry copper |
Grade-tonnage model |
Not assessed |
Geologic age |
Geologic feature age |
Eocene through Pliocene |
Generalized age |
Tertiary-Paleogene |
Oldest rocks age |
55.8Ma
|
Youngest rocks age |
2.6Ma
|
Age range |
53.2Ma
|
|
Map scales used |
1M |
(A quantitative assessment of this tract was not carried out.)
Bibliographic references
General |
Hammarstrom and others (2014) |
Hammarstrom, J.M., Bookstrom, A.A., DeMarr, M.W., Dicken, C.L., Ludington, Steve, Robinson, G.R., Jr., and Zientek, M.L., with contributions from Cox, D.P., Manipon, C.J.C., Rollan, L.A., Sakimoto, Takehiro, Takagi, Tetsuichi, and Watanabe, Yasushi, 2013,Porphyry copper assessment of East and Southeast AsiaPhilippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), Republic of Korea (South Korea), and Japan: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 20105090P, 241 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5090/p/.