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Higher I Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Loam
• Sedimentary facies (Lower): River channel deposit
• Sedimentary facies (Lower, Minor): Hyperconcentrated flood flow deposit
• Lithofacies (Upper): Clay
• Lithofacies (Lower): Gravels, Sands
• Sedimentary structures: Imbrication, Trough cross-stratification

• Thickness (Upper): 10 m or thinner
• Thickness (Lower): 3 m or thinner

• Distribution: Adachi, Nihonmatsu city, Fukushima pref.
• Tephra: Sn-SK, Sn-KB, Ad-MH1, Ad-MH2, Ad-MH3, Ad-DK

• Kubo et al. (2015) Geology of the Kawamata District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 86p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)