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Rinsenji Formation (Tsunoda, 1980) Ueki and Sakai, 2007

• Type locality: Rinsenji temple, Kabe town, Ome city, Tokyo
• Coherent formation
• Holocene (ca. 4 ka)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Silt

• Thickness: 1 - 4 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Chichibu Belt)

• Distribution: Kabe town - Futamatao - Oyanagi town - Chigase town - Hatakenaka - Komaki town - Nagabuhi - Tomoda town, Ome city, Tokyo; Hino - Manganji, Hino city, Tokyo; Yamada - Hikita - Ushinuma - Kirikake - Minamikomiya, Akiruno city, Tokyo

• Ueki and Sakai (2007) Geology of the Ome District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 189p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)