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Kamiya Unit

• Type locality: Wakayama pref.
• Accretionary complex
• Resedimented from Obiki Unit and Yura Unit
• Deposition (Chert): Triassic
• Deposition (Limestone): Triassic
• Deposition (Torinosu Limestone): Jurassic
• Deposition (Siliceous tuff): Middle - Late Jurassic
• Deposition: Early Cretaceous, Valanginian - Barremian (Radiolarians)
• Correlation (Limestone): Torinosu Group

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Mélange facies, Coherent facies
• Lithofacies (Coherent facies): Conglomerate, Mudstone, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
• Matrix: Mudstone
• Exotic blocks (Crusts): Chert, Limestone

• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: Butsuzo Tectonic Line

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

• Distribution: southern Yura city, Hidaka county, Wakayama pref.

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