In the Yeongil area, the Tertiary lacustrine sediments belonging to the Janggi or Beomgogri Group are widely distributed, and they are intimately associated with the Tertiary volcanics and the Yeongil basalt in space and time. The Tertiary strata are mainly composed of pyroclastic deposits resulting from the subvolcanic eruption of intermittently ascending magma prior to the emplacement of the volcanics. The Nuldaeri volcanics belong to calc-alkali rock series in chemical composition, which show basaltandesite-dacite-rhyolite series. It is composed chiefly of voluminous dacite, which is divided into massive dacite and brecciated dacite in the texture and andesite, and accompanied with less abundant rhyolite. Basalt also occurs in small amount by the xenolith in the basaltic tuff. The main constituent minerals of these rocks are plagioclase, pyroxene, hornblend, biotite, and minor constituent minerals are magnetite, apatite and calcite. Chemical analyses of 14 volcanic rocks are given. The analyses are plotted in several variation diagrams; SiO₂-total alkali, SiO₂-oxide, AFM, FeO^*/Mgo-FeO^* and FeO^*/Mgo-SiO₂ diagram. The Nuldaeri volcanics belong to the subalkali rock series, A-F-M diagram shows a gradual trend toward alkali enrichment. The several evidences support the view that the Nuldaeri volcanics were derived from basaltic parental magma by process of crystallization differentiation.

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