Kamuikotan metamorphic belt

Japanese: 神居古潭変成帯 - かむいこたんへんせいたい
Kamuikotan metamorphic belt

A metamorphic belt that stretches 300 km north to south, centered on Kamuikotan, west of Asahikawa City, Hokkaido. It is also called the Kamuikotan Belt. It is characterized by high-pressure metamorphism of the prehnite-pumpellyite and glaucophanite schist facies, and contains minerals that recrystallize at relatively low temperatures and high pressures, such as glaucophane, lawsonite, aragonite, and jadeite. The existence of serpentine mélange is also known.

Radiometric dating using the potassium-argon method indicates that this metamorphism occurred between approximately 145 and 51 million years ago. It was once thought to be a counterpart to the high-temperature Hidaka Metamorphic Belt to the east, but this idea has now been rejected as the Kamuikotan Metamorphic Belt is older in age.

[Yoshida Shizuo and Murata Akihiro]

[References] | Kamuikotan | Potassium-argon method | Metamorphism | Metamorphic belt | Melange

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

北海道旭川(あさひかわ)市の西方、神居古潭を中心に南北に細長く300キロメートルにわたって延びる変成帯。神居古潭帯ともいう。ぶどう石‐パンペリー石相および藍閃(らんせん)石片岩相の高圧型の変成作用によって特徴づけられ、藍閃石、ローソン石、アラゴナイト、ひすい輝石など比較的低温で高圧のもとで再結晶する鉱物を含んでいる。また、蛇紋岩メランジュの存在も知られている。

 カリウム‐アルゴン法による放射年代測定の結果は、本変成作用がおよそ1億4500万年前から5100万年前の間におこったことを示している。かつて、東側に分布する高温型の日高(ひだか)変成帯と対をなすと考えられたことがあるが、神居古潭変成帯のほうが変成年代が古く、この考えは現在では否定されている。

[吉田鎮男・村田明広]

[参照項目] | 神居古潭 | カリウム‐アルゴン法 | 変成作用 | 変成帯 | メランジュ

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