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Higher Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposit
• middle Pleistocene (0.3 - 0.2 Ma)
• Correlation: Higher I Terrace Deposit, Higher II Terrace Deposit

• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands
• Sedimentary structures: Trough cross-stratification, Parallel stratification

• Thickness: 20 - 30 m

• Distribution: Shiono - Lake Tsurugaike, Shimogo city, Minamiaizu county, Fukushima pref.
• Tephra: TK Tephra

• Yamamoto (1999) Geology of the Tajima District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 85p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)