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Kakeyama Conglomearte Member Shimakura and Tsuchida, 1939

Invalid synonym: Hiyoriyama Conglomerate

• Type locality: Kakeyama, Ishinomaki city, Miyagi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Basal conglomerate
• Miocene
• Correlation: Wabuchi Conglomerate Member

• Lithofacies: Conglomerate
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sandstone, Tuff

• Thickness: 300 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Kameoka Formation, Tatsunokuchi Formation, Omotezawa Formation, Nakayama Formation, Tawaraniwa Formation, Yamashita Formation, Terrace deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Inai Group)

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

• Distribution: Kakeyama - Mount Hiyori - Nasugawa - Mount Haguro, Ishinomaki city, Miyagi pref.

• Takizawa et al. (1984) Geology of the Ishinomaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 103p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)
• Ishii et al. (1982) Geology of the Matsushima District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 121p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)