Abstract
The Ryoke belt represents the root of a volcanic arc exposed across SW Japan. It records successive deformation phases, high-temperature metamorphism, and several magmatic pulses that occurred during the Late Cretaceous. Successive magma intrusions at different crustal levels raised the overall geothermal gradient of the arc crust, and their thermal influence was contrastingly recorded in metamorphic zircon and monazite. Despite a broadly similar duration of magmatic activity (20–30 My) along the belt, the timing and periodicity of magma pulses varied. An along-arc variation in lower crustal magma generation together with a fluctuating crustal stress regime likely controlled the formation and evolution of this magmatic arc section.
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