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Nishinoomote Formation Okada, 1982

• Type locality: Osaki - Minato - Izeki, Nishinoomote, Nishinoomote city, Kagoshima prefecture
• Accretionary complex
• Deposition: Oligocene

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies (Upper, Main): Sandstone-dominant interbedded sandstone and mudstone
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Mudstone-dominant interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Sandstone
• Lithofacies (Middle): Okubo Mudstone Member
• Lithofacies (Lower): Interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Mélange facies
• Exotic blocks (Lower, Crusts): Sandstone, Mudstone, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
• Sedimentary structures (Sandstone): Graded bedding, Parallel bedding, Current ripples, Climbing ripples, Groove marks, Load structures, Convolute lamination

• Thickness (Overall): 1,000 m or thicker
• Thickness (Upper): ca. 500 m
• Thickness (Middle): 50 - 80 m
• Thickness (Lower): 50 m or thicker

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

• Distribution: Osaki - Minato - Izeki, Nishinoomote, Nishinoomote city, Kagoshima pref.
• Fossils (Radiolarians): Amphicraspedum prolixum, Amphicraspedum sp., Anthocytidium odontatum, Artophormis barbadensis, Artophormis gracilis, Artophormis sp., Axoprunum pierinae, Calocyclas sp., Cryptocarpium sp., Cyrtocapsa osculum, Cyrtocapsa sp., Dictyophinus sp., Dorcadospyris sp., Eucyrtidium plesiodiaphanes, Eucyrtidium sp., Lithocyclia angusta, Lithocyclina sp., Lophocyrtis sp., Lychnocanoma sp., Periphaena decora, Periphaena heliasteriscus, Periphaena sp., Phormocyrtis vasculum, Phormocyrtis sp., Spirocyrtis proboscis, Stylosphaera sp., Stylotrochus charlestonensis, Stylotrochus sp., Theocorys bianulus, Theocorys perforalvus, Theocyrtis setanios, Theocyrtis sp., Tristylospyris sp.
• Fossils (Calcareous nannofossils): Coccolithus pelagicus, cyclicargolithus floridanus, Discoaster sp., Reticulofenestra bisecta, Reticulofenestra sp., Sphenolithus distentus, Spheolithus predistentus, Sphenolithus moriformis

• Kikukawa et al. (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.5, pp.313-329 DOI