Kusagi Terrace Deposit

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Kusagi Terrace Deposit (Tayama and Tsuchida, 1939) Tuzino et al., 2018

Type locality: Odaira, Saihoji, Ichinohe city, Ninohe county, Iwate prefecture
Mabechi river system
Coherent formation
late Pleistocene (112 - 36 ka)
Correlation: Hayawatari Terrace Deposit

Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands, Silt, Clay

Thickness: 2 - 3 m or thicker
Lower limit: Unconformity (Yotsuyaku Formation, Kadonosawa Formation, Suenomatuyama Formaiton)

western Ichinohe region, Iwate pref.
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Horino Terrace Deposit
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Maisawa Terrace Deposit
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Towada-Hachinohe Pyroclastic Flow Deposit
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Towada-Ofudo Pyroclastic Flow Deposit
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Kusagi Terrace Deposit
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Asanai Terrace Deposit
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------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Odaira, Saihoji - Kusagi, Megaguchi, Ichinohe city, Ninohe county, Iwate pref.; Mabechi river, Nisatai, Ninohe city, Iwate pref.

Tuzino et al. (2018) Geology of the Ichinohe District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 161p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)