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Kanagigawa Member Fujii, 1966
- Type locality: middle reaches of Kanagi river, Kanagi town, Goshogawara city, Aomori prefecture
- Coherent formation
- Pliocene
- Sedimentary facies: Surface debris flow deposit
- Lithofacies: Tuffaceous sandstone including diatomaceous mudstone blocks
- Lithofacies (Minor): Tuff, Sandstone
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Nakasato, Nakadomari city, Kitatsugaru county, Aomori pref.; Kanagi river, Kanagi town, Goshogawara city, Aomori pref.
- Fossils (Diatoms, Mosawa): Actinocyclus ehrenbergii var. ralfsii, Actinoptychus cfr. undulatus, Chaetoceros spp., Cacconeis antiqua, Cacconeis curvirotunda, Cacconeis formosa, Cacconeis vitrea, Coscinodiscus elegans, Coscinodiscus marginatus, Coscinodiscus stellaris, Denticula hustedtii, Denticula lauta, Eunotia sp., Eutogramma sp., Fragilariopsis pliocenum, Grammatophora sp., Melosira italica, Melosira sulcata, Opephora sp., Pyxila cfr. capreolus, Rouxia californica, Rouxia peragalli, Rhizosolenia sp., Thalassionema nitzschioides (= Thalassionema hirosakiensis), Thalassiothrix longissima, Thalassiosira antiqua, Thalassiosira haynaldiella, Thalassiosira maruyamica, Thalassiosira cfr. oculatus, Thalassiosira spp., Triceratium spp.
- Fujii (1981) Geology of the Aburakawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 38p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)
- Fujii (1966) Kanagi, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 40p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)