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Lower II Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• end of Last glacial period, Pleistocene - Holocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: River channel
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification, Trough cross-stratification

• Thickness: 10 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Nojiri river, Showa city, Onuma county, Fukushima pref.; Takiya river, Yanaizu city, Kawanuma county, Fukushima pref.

• Yamamoto and Komazawa (2004) Geology of the Miyashita District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 71p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)