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Higher Terrace Deposit

Invalid synonym: Odamaki Formation

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Imbrication
• Paleocurrent (Chichibu city): South to North, North to South
• Paleocurrent (Yorii city): Northwest to Southeast

• Thickness: 11 - 40 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Sayama Loam, Tama Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Sanbagawa Metamorphic Rocks)

• Distribution: Odamaki hills, Chichibu city, Saitama pref.; Sonesaka pass, Minano city, Chichibu county, Saitama pref.; Orihara - Sueno, Yorii city, Osato county, Saitama pref.
• Fossils: Stegodon orientaris shodoensis (Molar)

• Makimoto and Takeuchi (1992) Geology of the Yorii District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 136p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)