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Shunezaka Sandstone and Conglomerate Member

• Type locality: Shunezaka, Kaneyama city, Mogami county, Yamagata prefecture
• Coherent formation
• middle Miocene

• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Conglomerate
• Lithofacies (Minor): Tuff, Tuff breccia, Lapilli tuff, Mudstone

• Thickness: 0 - 200 m
• Upper limit: Bottom of tuff-dominant bed
• Upper limit: Transitional (Gabasawa Tuff Member)
• Lower limit: Bottom of sandstone-bearing horizon
• Lower limit: Transitional, partly unconformity

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

• Distribution: Shunezaka, Kaneyama city, Mogami county, Yamagata pref.
• Fossils: Plants
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Anadara cfr. ogawai, Chlamys cfr. arakawai, Chlamys cfr. hataii, Chlamys kaneharai, Chlamys nisataiensis, Clementia? sp., Dosinia kaneharai, Dosinia cfr. nomurai, Macoma optiva, Panope cfr. japonica, Patinopecten kimurai

• Ozawa and Sumi (1961) Uzenkaneyama, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 66p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)