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Higher III Terrace Deposits
- Coherent formation
- middle Pleistocene
- Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
- Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands
- Thickness: ca. 6 - 20 m or thicker
- Upper limit: Loam
- Lower limit: Unconformity
- Distribution: Horimizo town - Sugisawa town, Mitsuke city, Niigata pref.; Hitozura pass, Nagaoka city, Niigata pref.
- Kudo et al. (2011) Geology of the Kamo District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 162p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
- Kobayashi et al. (2002) Geology of the Sanjo District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 98p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)