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N5

Synonym: Nyunokawa Conglomerate

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

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies: Continental shelf, Upper continental slope
• Lithofacies: Conglomerate
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sandstone, Sandstone-dominant interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Muddy conglomerate
• Sedimentary structures: Graded bedding
• Sedimentary structures (Minor): Reversed graded bedding
• Paleocurrent (Lateral current flow): to North - Northwest

• Thickness: ca. 0 - 400 m
• Lower limit: Bottom of a thick sandstone bed

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

• Distribution: Kshokuchi - Tomo, Tanabe city, Wakayama pref.; Kamiyukawa river - Hikiushigoe - Tonoi, Totsukawa city, Yoshino county, Nara pref.

• 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.)