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Kanayama Unit

• Type locality: Okukanayama, Kanayama town, Gero city, Gifu prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Limestone): late Permian, Triassic (Fusulinids, Conodonts)
• Deposition (Siliceous claystone): Triassic
• Deposition (Chert): middle Triassic - Middle Jurassic (Radiolarians, Conodonts)
• Deposition (Siliceous mudstone): Middle Jurassic - Cretaceous (Radiolarians)
• Deposition (Sandstone): Middle - Late Jurassic
• Deposition (Mudstone): Middle Jurassic (Radiolarians)
• Accretion: Jurassic
• Correlation: Shimashima Complex, a part of Misogawa Complex, Yokokawa Formation, Kurohone-Kiryu Complex, Karasuyama Unit?
• Intruded by: Azukuji Granodiorite

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Mélange facies
• Matrix: Mudstone, Siliceous mudstone
• Exotic blocks (Crusts): Sandstone, Mudstone, Siliceous mudstone, Chert, Siliceous claystone, Basalt

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

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

• Distribution: Okukanayama - Tobe - Nakagiri, Kanayama town, Gero city, Gifu pref.; Yamagata city, Gifu pref.; Ikeno - Gakuden - Lake Irukaike, Inuyama city, Aichi pref.
• Fossils (Limestone): Neoschwagerina sp., Yabeina shiraiwensis
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Archaeodictyomitra sp., Eucyrtidiellum unumaense, Guexella nudata, Hsuum spp., Protunuma?ochiensis, Stylocapsa cf. tecta, Tricolocapsa conexa

• Sano et al. (2017) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.123, no.3, pp.163-178 DOI
• Sano et al. (2010) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.116, no.6, pp.321-340 DOI
• Yamakita and Otoh (2000) Structural Geology, vol.44, pp.5-32
• Yoshida and Wakita (1999) Geology of the Gifu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 71p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Wakita (1995) Geology of the Mino District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 36p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)
• Wakita and Koido (1994) Geology of the Gero District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 79p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Mizutani and Koido (1992) Geology of the Kanayama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 111p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)
• Wakita (1991) Geology of the Tanigumi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 53p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)