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Honokizaka Terrace Deposit Shinano River Terrace Research Group, 1968

• Type locality: Unoki - Honokizaka, Tsunan city, Nakauonuma county, Niigata prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposit
• Pleistocene (ca. 0.1 Ma or older)
• Correlation: T₃ Terrace Deposit

• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: Several - ca. 6 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Maibara Loam)

• Distribution: Unoki - Honokizaka - Kaisaka - Akazawa, Tsunan city, Nakauonuma county, Niigata pref.

• Takeuchi et al. (2000) Geology of the Matsunoyama Onsen District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 76p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Shimazu and Tateishi (1993) Geology of the Naebasan District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 90p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)