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Western Honshu Area

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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 Asia—Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), Republic of Korea (South Korea), and Japan: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5090–P, 241 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5090/p/.