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Matsuzaki Formation

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Umekami Formation, Aobayama Formation

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Clay

• Thickness: 45 cm
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Senganda Formation, Yokonuma Formation)

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

• Distribution: Shinjo - Godantara - Kamisawa - Saichi - Nagaiso - Oshimayogai, Kesennuma city, Miyagi pref.

• Kambe and Shimazu (1961) Kesennuma, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 73p. (in Japanese with English abstract 16p.)