Abstract

Two different granites in their oxygen fugacity during the formation, are seen in the drill cores from the northwestern part of Okayama City. One is coarse-grained granite having no or little rock-forming magnetite, while the other is fine-grained aplitic granite occurring in sheet-like form and containing coarse-grained magnetite in miarolitic aggregates of K-feldspar and quartz. The major and trace elements chemistry indicates that the aplitic granite is crystallized from fractionated melts of the coarse-grained granitic magma. It is suggested that the fractionated magma became rich in H2O which dissociated into O2 and H2 and the hydrogen diffused out to the roof rocks; then the oxygen fugacity was increased to form magnetite. Lollingite was discovered along cracks of the coarse-grained granite at one quarry, reflecting a low sulfur fugacity of the post-magmatic hydrothermal activity of these granites.

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