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Kamiyoshida Unit (Fujimoto, 1935)

• Type locality: Kamiyoshida, Chichibu city, Saitama prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Limestone): middle Permian (Fusulina)
• Deposition (Matrix): Middle Jurassic (Radiolarians)
• Accretion: Jurassic
• Transitional: Yusugawa Formation
• Correlation: Shiraki Group

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Mélange facies, Coherent facies
• Matrix: Shale, Sandstone, Siliceous shale, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
• Exotic blocks (Crusts): Sandstone, Chert (Gray), Basalt, Limestone

• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: Thrust fault

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

• Distribution: Kamiyoshida, Chichibu city, Saitama pref.; Hinosawa river - Chichibu-Kegon fall, Minano city, Saitama pref.; Yonoo, Kanna city, Gunma pref.
• Fossils: Radiolarians

• Uchino and Suzuki (2017) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.123, no.12, pp.1015-1033 DOI
• Hisada et al. (2016) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.122, no.7, pp.325-342, DOI