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Upper Sandstone Unit

• Type locality: Nara prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition: Early Cretaceous, Aptian or later (U-Pb)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Coherent facies (Chert-clastic sequence)?
• Lithofacies: Sandstone

• Thickness: 600 m
• Upper limit: Thrust fault (Wasabidani Complex)
• Lower limit: Thrust fault

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

• Distribution: Kawakami city - Kurotaki city, Yoshino county, Nara prefecture

• Ota et al. (2019) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.125, no.5, pp.329-347 DOI