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Kashimagari Unit Kurimoto et al., 1999

Invalid synonym: Kashimagari Complex

• Type locality: Okura - Kashimagari, Tsuruga city, Fukui prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Limestone): early - middle Permian (Fusulinids)
• Deposition (Shale): Middle Jurassic (Radiolarians)
• Middle Jurassic
• Correlation: Yunoo Complex, Kasgano Formation, Mukasa Complex, Sakamototoge Unit, Sakauchi Complex, Tada Complex, Shimonegori Complex

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Mélange facies
• Matrix: Mudstone
• Exotic blocks (Slabs): Chert, Limestone
• Exotic blocks (Crusts): Chert, Sandstone, Shale, Limestone, Greenstones

• Thickness: ca. 500 m
• Lower limit: Thrust fault (Obanashi Complex)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Okura - Kashimagari, Tsuruga city, Fukui pref.; Yogo, Nagahama city, Shiga pref.
• Fossils (Fusulinids): Chusenella sp., Neoschwagerina cheni, Neoschwagerina craticulifera, Neoschwagerina cf. douvillei, Neoschwagerina cf. margaritae, Triticites cf. plummeri, Yabeina globosa
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Eucyrtidiellum sp., Hsuum sp., Nassellaria gen. et sp. indet., Stichocapsa sp., Tricolocapsa plicarum, Zartus sp.

• Saito and Sawada (2000) Geology of the Yokoyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 126p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Kurimoto et al. (1999) Geology of the Tsuruga District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 73p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)