“…Magma mixing has been repeatedly dis cussed, and found to occur ubiquitously in calc alkaline volcanic suites (Eichelberger, 1975(Eichelberger, , 1980Anderson, 1976;Sakuyama, 1979Sakuyama, , 1981Gerlach and Grove, 1982;Grove et al, 1982;Sakuyama and Koyaguchi, 1984;Koyaguchi, 1986a, b). In the last decade, the con cept of the periodically refilled magma chamber (Yanagi, 1975;O'Hara, 1977;O'Hara and Mathews, 1981) has increasingly become an important idea for understanding the arc volcanism.…”