“…The water vapour con tents were always >90 vol.%. The gases can be classified into three types: high temperature fu marolic gases (>_200°C) containing HCl (Matsuo, (Matsuo, 1961;Mizutani, 1978), 2: Nigorikawa (Asada, 1993), 3: Tamagawa (Kiyosu, 1983), 4: Matsukawa (Kiyosu, 1983), 5: Takinoue (Kiyosu and Yoshida, 1988), 6: Onikobe (Kiyosu, 1986), 7: Issaikyo (Kiyosu, 1983), 8: Nasu (Kiyosu, 1983), 9: Kusatsu Shirane (Asada, 1993), 10: Myoko (Asada, 1991), 11: Tateyama (Asada, 1991(Asada, , 1993, 12: Ontake (Asada, 1993), 13: Kuju Iwoyama (Mizutani et al, 1986), and 14: Unzen (Asada, 1993). Squares, circles and triangles indicate high temperature fumarolic gases: 1, Usu (Matsuo et al, 1982), 13, Satsuma-Iwojima (Matsuo et al, 1975), low temperature fumarolic gases: 3, 7-12, 14, and geothermal gases: 2, 4, 5, respectively.…”