Catazone

…A.F. Buddington (1959) argued that there is a close relationship between the shape and properties of granite bodies and the properties of the surrounding rocks, and that the properties and appearance of granite also correspond to the depth at which it was formed. He called the relatively shallow areas of the crust where there has been almost no regional metamorphism or areas of metamorphic rocks that have cooled in ancient geological times the epizone, the deep areas where there is high-level regional metamorphism occurring the catazone, and the intermediate areas the mesozone. In general, harmonic granite bodies are often found in regional metamorphic belts. …

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…バディントンA.F.Buddington(1959)は，花コウ岩体の形や性質と周囲の岩石の性質との間には密接な関係があると主張し，花コウ岩の性質や現出状態も，その形成された深さに対応すると考えた。そして，地殻の比較的浅くてほとんど広域変成作用の起こっていないところや古い地質時代の冷却してしまった変成岩地帯などをエピ帯epizone，深くて高度の広域変成作用の起こりつつある地帯をカタ帯catazone，その中間のところをメソ帯mesozoneと呼んだ。一般に調和的な花コウ岩体は，広域変成帯に産することが多い。…

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