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Kuga Group

• Type locality: Yamaguchi prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition (Clastic rock): Late Jurassic

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies (Main): Pelitic rock
• Lithofacies (Minor): Chert, Sandstone, Siliceous shale, Limestone

• Upper limit: Unknown
• Lower limit: Transitional (Ryoke Metamorphic Rocks)

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

• Distribution: Iwakuni city, Yamaguchi pref.

• Owada et al. (2014) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.120, no.11, pp.413-418 DOI
• Kiminami et al., (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.11, pp.578-596 DOI