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Higher Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Omigawa Formation, Ainokaze Formation

• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands, Clay

• Thickness: 15 - 25 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Yoneyama Formation)

• Distribution: Agewa, Kashiwazaki city, Niigata pref.
• Fossils (Diatoms, Freshwater): Fragilaria sp., Navicula sp., Synedra sp.

• Takeuchi et al. (1996) Geology of the Kakizaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 48p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)