Takayama Formation

Type locality (Upper): Takayama town, Nagahama city, Shiga prefecture
Type locality (Lower): Mount Odaniyama, Nagahama city, Shiga prefecture
Accretionary complex
Deposition (Limestone): early - middle Permian (Fusulinids)
Jurassic

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

Thickness: 3,000 m or thicker?
Upper limit: Conformity (Otaniyama Formation)

Kusanogawa Group
[ Upper ]
/--/--/--/--/-
Otaniyama Formation
/--/--/--/--/-
Takayama Formation
/--/--/--/--/-
[ Lower ]

Mino Belt (west Nagahama, Shiga pref.)
[ Upper ]
/--/--/--/--/-
Kusanogawa Group
/--/--/--/--/-
[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Takayama town - Nose town - Kitamake - Yono - Mount Odaniyama - Kamiyamada - Taniguchi - Sabudani valley - Nishimura, Nagahama city, Shiga pref.; Koga, Maibara city, Shiga pref.
Fossils (Upper, Limestone, Fusulinids): Cancellina nipponica, Miselina cf. aliciae, Nagatoella sp., Neoschwagerina craticulifera, Neoschwagerina simplex, Parafusulina cf. pusilla, Paraschwagerina? sp., Pseudofusulina cf. japonica, Pseudofusulina cf. kraffti, Pseudofusulina cf. vulgaris, Schwagerina sp.
Fossils (Lower, Limestone, Fusulinids): Paraschwagerina sp., Pseudofusulina cf. ambigua, Pseudofusulina cf. fusiformis, Pseudofusulina aff. japonica, Pseudofusulina kraffti, Pseudofusulina vulgaris, Schwagerina sp., Triticites sp.

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.)