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Higher Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Sedimentary facies (Minor): Shallow marine, Delta
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Lower): Sands

• Thickness: 5 - 10 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Pliocene strata)

• Distribution: Matsudo - Kabaniwa - Yunuki, Soma city, Fukushima pref.

• Yanagisawa et al. (1996) Geology of the Somanakamura District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 114p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)