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Osawa Terrace Deposit (Minakawa, 1968)

• Type locality: Hachiman shrine, Matano, Midori ward, Sagamihara city, Kanagawa prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Higher terrace deposit
• middle Pleistocene (MIS 7 - 6)
• Correlation: Okunugi Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Fill top terrace, Fill strath terrace
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Loam-like silt

• Thickness: 40 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Shimosueyoshi uarashi Loam, Sagamihara Terrace Deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kobotoke Group, Sagamiko Group, Suarashi Terrace Deposit)

• Distribution: Matano - Nakano - Nakazawa - Ogura - Nekoya - Nagatake - Shiritakijiri, Midori ward, Sagamihara city, Kanagawa pref.; Mimasu, Atsugi city, Kanagawa pref.
• Tephra: SuP-2.5

• Ueki et al. (2013) Geology of the Hachioji District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 137p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)