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Nishinoiwa Formation

• Accretionary complex
• Early Jurassic (Radiolarians)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies: Continental shelf
• Lithofacies: Mudstone dominant, Sandstone

• Thickness: 700 m
• Upper limit: Thrust fault
• Lower limit: partly fault (Miyamadani Formation)

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

• Distribution: western Kyushu
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Gorgansium morganense, Natoba minuta, Charlottea cf. harbridgensis, Canoptum sp.

• Ishida (2015) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.121, no.2, pp.45-58 DOI
• Ishida (2007) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.113, no.3, pp.83-94 DOI