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Kanayama Formation

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Uonuma Group

• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Conglomerate, Mudstone

• Upper limit: Unknown
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Minagawa Formation)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Yashiroda, Akiha-ku, Niigata city, Niigata pref.

• Shimazu et al. (2014) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.120, no.7, pp.247-253 DOI