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Hirote Formation Kudo et al., 2011
- Type locality: Hirote - Akasaka, Sanjo city, Niigata prefecture
- Coherent formation
- Pleistocene
- Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Shimizusawa Formation?
- Correlation: Oyama Formation
- Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
- Lithofacies: Mud, Sands
- Lithofacies (Basal): Gravels
- Kamo, Niigata pref.
- [ Upper ]
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- Hirote Formation
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- Komagome Formation
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- [ Lower ]
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Hirote - Akasaka - Komagome, Sanjo city, Niigata pref.; Fukuzawa - Osawa - Katahira, Sanjo city, Niigata pref.
- Fossils: Plants
- Kudo et al. (2011) Geology of the Kamo District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 162p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)