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Minamiyama Complex (Goto, 1986) Yamamoto et al., 2000

Invalid synonym: Minamiyama Formation

• Type locality: Shimoseka, Ichikawa city, Kanzaki county, Hyogo prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Siliceous shale): Late Triassic - Early Jurassic (Radiolarians)
• Deposition (Shale): Jurassic (Radiolarians)
• Accretion: Jurassic - Early Cretaceous

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Mélange facies
• Matrix: Shale
• Exotic blocks (Crusts): Sandstone, Chert, Greenstones
• Exotic blocks (Crusts, Minor): Limestone

• Thickness: ca. 500 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Fukusaki Formation, Yumesaki Formation, Gomyo Formation)

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

• Distribution: Shimoseka, Ichikawa city, Kanzaki county, Hyogo pref.; Ibogawa town, Tatsuno city, Hyogo pref.; Yamasaki town, Shiso city, Hyogo pref.; Yumesaki town - Yasutomi town - Kodera, Himeji city, Hyogo pref.; Fukusaki city, Kanzaki county, Hyogo pref.
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Canoptum cf. triassicum, Natoba? sp., Parahsuum sp., Parvicingula sp., Saturnosphaera cf. convertus, Stichocapsa sp., Tricolocapsa sp.
• Fossils (Fusulinids): Fusulinella cf. bocki

• Yamamoto et al. (2002) Geology of the Yamasaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 48p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Yamamoto et al. (2000) Geology of the Tatsuno District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 66p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)