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Middle III Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (late MIS 4)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Imbricate structure
• Paleocurrent: to North - Northwest - West-northwest

• Thickness: ca. 15 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Atsuda - Sakai - Narisawa - river mouth of Nogawa river - Ono, 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.)