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Matsuoyama Formation

• Type locality: Mount Matsuoyama, Sekigahara city, Fuwa county, Gifu prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Limestone): middle Permian (Fusulinids)
• Jurassic

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Slate, Sandstone
• Lithofacies (Minor): Limestone, Chert

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

• Distribution: Mount Matsuoyama - Yamanaka - Tamamura - Mount Iwakurayama - Imasugawa river, Sekigahara city, Fuwa county, Gifu pref.
• Fossils (Limestone, Fusulinids): Pseudofusulina japonica

• Isomi (1956) Ominagahama, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 51p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)