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Hikami Formation

UT-1 Sub-belt

• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Clastic rocks): Permian (Triassic?)
• Correlation: Kamitaki Formation, Yamasaki Formation, Jododani Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Massive sandstone
• Lithofacies (Minor): Interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Mudstone

• Upper limit: Thrust (Lower sheet of Yakuno Ophiolite), Unknown (Oi Formation)

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

• Distribution: Nagai, Oi city, Oi county, Fukui pref.; Cape Kataebana, Okozu, Obama city, Fukui pref.
• Fossils: Radiolarians (Follicucullus? sp.)

• Takemura et al. (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.2, pp.117-125 DOI
• Sugamori et al. (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, Supplement, pp.21-36 DOI
• Sugamori and Kametaka (2011) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.117, no.11, pp.617-624 DOI
• Sugamori (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.2, pp.80-95 DOI
• Takemura et al. (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, Supplement, pp.123-137 DOI
• Kurimoto et al. (1993) Geology of the Sasayama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 93p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)