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N3

• Type locality: Sakatai - Kazai - Kshokuchi, Tanabe city, Wakayama prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Paleogene, or Late Cretaceous, Campanian

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies: Continental shelf, Upper continental slope
• Lithofacies (Upper): Mudstone-dominant interbedded sandstone and mudstone
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Sandstone
• Lithofacies (Lower): Shale
• Lithofacies (Lower, Minor): Mudstone-dominant interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Greenstones, Limestone
• Sedimentary structures: Load structure, Graded bedding, Parallel structure, Flute marks, Groove marks
• Paleocurrent (Lateral current flow): to North - Northwest

• Thickness: ca. 590 - 900 m

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

• Distribution: Sakatai - Kazai - Kshokuchi - Mount Toragamine - Mount Kasatoyama - Sugano - Kuchiaidani valley - Sainotani valley - Mount Andosan - Mount Kashiomoriyama - Kumondani valley - Mount Hyakuzenmoriyama, Tanabe city, Wakayama pref.; Teragaito - Tonoi, Totsukawa city, Yoshino county, Nara pref.
• Fossils (Trace fossils): Terebellina isp.

• Tokuoka et al (1981) Geology of the Ryujin District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 69p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)