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Amanokawara Formation

• Accretionary complex
• Carbonate rocks at the upper slope of a seamount in the ocean.
• Deposition: Permian, late Cisuralian
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Funabuseyama Formation, Hashikadani Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Limestone breccia, Dolomite breccia, Sandstone
• Lithofacies (Bottom): Basaltic rocks

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

• Distribution: eastern Mount Funabuse, Gifu pref.

• Sano (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.6, pp.449-467 DOI
• Kuwahara et al. (2010) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.116, no.3, pp.159-173 DOI
• Wakita (1991) Geology of the Tanigumi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 53p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)