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Nishiki Group

• Type locality: Nishiki, Iwakuni city, Yamaguchi prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Early - Middle Permian

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies (Main): Sandstone, Mudstone, Felsic tuff
• Lithofacies (Minor): Basalt, Limestone, Chert, Siliceous mudstone, Conglomerate

• Upper limit: Unconformity ( Kanmon Group, Shunan Group, Abu Group, Higuchi Group)
• Lower limit: Kitayama Thrust Fault

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

• Distribution: Nishiki, Iwakuni city - Kano, Shunan city, Yamaguchi pref., Muikaichi city, Shimane pref.
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Pseudoalbaillella, Follicuculus

• Nakagawa and Wakita (2016) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.122, no.12, pp.659-664, DOI
• Nagata et al. (2015) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.121, no.2, pp.59-69 DOI
• Imaoka et al. (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, no.12, pp.782-800 DOI