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River Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene - Holocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Alluvial fan deposit
• Sedimentary facies (Lower): River terrace deposit
• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Debris flow deposit
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands, Clay

• Thickness (Upper): ca. 15 m
• Thickness (Lower): 3 - 15 m

• Distribution: Hagiwara - Hane - Sakurabora - Shimitsuji, Gero city, Gifu pref.

• Kawada et al. (1988) Geology of the Hagiwara District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 82p. (in Japanese with English abstract 10p.)