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Middle Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (45 ka)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: ca. 20 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Unit II of Mizunuma Pyroclastic Deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Sakasegawa - Tachiishida, Niitsuru, Aizumisato city, Onuma counyt, Fukushima pref.; Nagai, Aizubange city, Kawanuma county, Fukushima pref.; Otaga, Takasato town, Kitakata city, Fukushima pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Alnus japonica, Berchemia racemosa, Carex sp., Jaglans ailanthifolia, Magnolia obovata, Rhamnus sp., Scirpus mucronatus, Sparganium glomeratum, Styrax japonica, Zanthoxylum piperitum

• Yamamoto et al. (2006) Geology of the Kitakata District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 63p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)