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Middle II Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (29.6 ka, ¹⁴C)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Lacustrine terrace deposit?
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Mud, Peat

• Thickness: a few - 4 m

• Distribution: Shirakawa river - Kotaru river - Inukawa river - Takamine - Shimoyachi - Kamiyachi - Hirogawara, Iide city, Nishiokitama county, Yamagata pref.

• Yanagisawa and Yamamoto (1998) Geology of the Tamaniwa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 94p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)