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Lower III Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Holocene

• Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Mud

• Thickness: 3 - 5 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kando Subcomplex, Shigekurayama Volcanic Rock Member, Otani Formation)

• Distribution: Mitsuke city, Niigata pref.; Karasugashima, 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.)