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Kawai Limestone
- Type locality: Kawai, Fuchu city, Hiroshima prefecture
- Accretionary complex
- Seamount-reef complex
- Deposition (Limestone): late Carboniferous - middle Permian (Fusulinids, Foraminifera)
- Accretion: Permian
- Sedimentary facies: Marine
- Lithofacies (Main): Limestone
- Lithofacies (Minor): Sandstone, Mudstone, Chert, Tuff
- Upper limit: Thrust fault
- Lower limit: Thrust fault
- Akiyoshi Belt (Hiroshima pref.)
- [ Upper ]
- /--/--/--/--/-
- Kawai Limestone
- /--/--/--/--/-
- [ Lower ]
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Kawai, Fuchu city, Hiroshima pref.
- Fossils: Bivales, Gastropods, Brachiopods, Bryozoans, Corals, Fusulinids, Foraminifera
- Fossils (Ammonoids): Diaboloceras sp., Pseudoparalegoceratidae gen. et sp. indet
- Ehiro et al. (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, no.8, pp.516-520 DOI