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Middle II Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (MIS 5a)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Sandy silt
• Sedimentary structures: Foreset cross-stratification, Imbricate structure
• Paleocurrent: to Northeast

• Thickness: 100 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Kamikari - Nishikawara - Atsuda - Himekawa river - Umikawa river - Nokawa river - Yamatogawa - Mizuhogawa river, Itoigawa city, Niigata pref.

• Nagamori et al. (2018) Geology of the Itoigawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 75p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)