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Dainohara Terrace Deposit

• Type locality: Dainohara, Aoba ward, Sendai city, Miyagi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (Shimosueyoshi stage)

• Climate: Warm (Pollen)
• Lithofacies: Gravel, Sand, Clay

• Thickness: 1 - 3 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Adachi-Medeshima Pumice Bed)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tatsunokuchi Formation, Mukaiyama Formation)

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

• Distribution: Dainohara, Aoba ward, Sendai city, Miyagi pref.; Azukishima, Natori city, Miyagi pref.
• Fossils (Pollen): Alnus sp.

• Miyamoto et al. (2013) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.119, Supplement, pp.27-46 DOI
• Kitamura et al. (1986) Geology of the Sendai District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 134p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)
• Oide and Fujita (1975) Geology of the Iwanuma District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 27p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)