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Hirose Sandstone Slab

Invalid synonym: Hirose Formation

• Type locality: Kyoto prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Correlation: Imajo Complex

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Interbedded sandstone and shale
• Lithofacies (Minor): Shale

• Distribution (Width): 500 - 1,000 m
• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: Thrust fault

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

• Distribution: Hodosu - Hirose, Kyotanba city, Funai county, Kyoto pref.; Daito - Kawai, Fukuchiyama city, Kyoto pref.

• Sugamori and Kametaka (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.11, pp.617-624 DOI
• Yamakita and Otoh (2000) Structural Geology, vol.44, pp.5-32
• Kimura et al. (1994) Geology of the Yotsuya District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 52p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Kimura et al. (1989) Geology of the Ayabe District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 104p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)