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Shimonegori Complex

• Type locality: Shimonegori, Obama city, Fukui prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Limestone): Carboniferous - middle Permian (Fusulinids)
• Deposition (Basalt): Carboniferous - middle Permian
• Deposition (Chert): early - middle Permian (Radiolarians)
• Deposition (Siliceous mudstone): Middle Jurassic?
• Deposition (Mudstone): Middle Jurassic?
• Correlation: Kashimagari Unit, Mukasa Complex, Kamanowa Complex, Yajiro Complex, Kumogahata Complex

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies (Upper): Mélange facies
• Lithofacies (Lower): Coherent facies (Chert-clastic sequence)
• Matrix (Upper): Mudstone
• Exotic blocks (Upper, Crusts): Basalt, Chert, Sandstone
• Lithofacies (Lower, Coherent facies): Basalt, Dolerite, Basalt clastic rocks, Chert
• Lithofacies (Lower, Coherent facies, Minor): Limestone, Mudstone, Sandstone

• Distribution (Width): ca. 5 km
• Upper limit: Bottom of the greenstone bed
• Upper limit: Thrust fault (Tada Complex)
• Lower limit: Bottom of the greenstone bed
• Lower limit: Thrust fault (Kochi Complex)

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

• Distribution: Shimonegori - Monzen - Ikenokochi, Obama city, Fukui pref.; Tentokuji - Miyake - Shindo - Otoba, Wakasa city, Mikatakaminaka county, Fukui pref.
• Fossils (Limestone, Fusulinids): Acervoschwagerina sp., Pseudofusulina fusformis, Pseudofusulina kraffti, Pseudofusulina tanoensis, Pseudofusulina vulgaris, Pseudofusulina vulgaris globosa, Pseudofusulina cf. yobarensis, Pseudoschwagerina sp., Triticites oshioensis, Triticites sonobensis
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Pseudoalbaillella sp., Canoptum? sp., Dictyomitrella? sp., Hsuum sp., Tricolocapsa sp.

• Nakae and Yoshioka (1998) Geology of the Kumagawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 71p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)