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Fushiki Gravel Bed

• Type locality: Jokoji bridge, Oyabegawa river, Takaoka city, Toyama prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposit
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Kubo Sand

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Mud
• Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification

• Thickness: ca. 20 m

• Distribution: Fushiki - Jokoji, Takaoka city, Toyama pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Alnus japonica, Corylus heterophylla, Fagus crenata, Juglans mandschurica, Pterocarya rhoifolia

• Sakamoto (1963) Toyama, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 45p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)