Banshoyama Subunit

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Banshoyama Subunit

Type locality: Banshoyama seashore, Shirahama city, Nishimuro county, Wakayama pref.
Accretionary complex
Deposition (Limestone): Triassic
Deposition: Middle Jurassic, Bathonian - Callovian (Radiolarians)

Sedimentary facies: Marine
Lithofacies: Mélange facies (Sedimentary)
Matrix: Mudstone, Sandstone, Conglomerate
Exotic blocks (Crusts, Olistostrome): Chert, Limestone, Greenstone, Sandstone

Upper limit: Thrust fault
Lower limit: Thrust fault

Obiki Unit
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Oshimayama Subunit
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Banshoyama Subunit
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Tatego Subunit
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Chuki Complex
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Obiki Unit
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Yura Unit
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Kamiya Unit
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[ Lower ]

Southern Chichibu Belt (Wakayama pref.)
[ Upper ]
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Chuki Complex
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[ Lower ]

Southern Chichibu Belt
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Ohirayama Unit
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Togano Unit
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Sanbosan Unit
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[ Lower ]

Chichibu Belt
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Kurosegawa Belt
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Northern Chichibu Belt
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Southern Chichibu Belt
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Banshoyama seashore, Shirahama city, Nishimuro county, Wakayama pref.; northern - middle Yura city, Hidaka county, Wakayama pref.
Fossils (Limestone): Conodonts (Epigondolella sp.), Hexacorallia (Thamnasteria sp., Polyphylloseris sp.), Stromatoporoids (Actinostromaria sp., Stromatopora sp.)

Yao (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, Supplement, pp.90-106 DOI