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Takada Formation Takada Plain Collaborative Research Group, 1961

• Type locality: not indicated
• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposit
• late Pleistocene - Holocene (4,950 - 1,580 yBP, ¹⁴C)
• Upper: Jomon Transgression Stage
• Upper (Basal): Younger Dryas Stage
• Middle: Older Dryas Stage
• Lower: Oldest Dryas Stage
• Bottom: Würm Glacial Stage

• Sedimentary facies (Upper): Flood plain, Backmarsh
• Sedimentary facies (Bottom): Alluvial fan
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands, Silt, Clay
• Lithofacies (Upper): Mud, Sands
• Lithofacies (Upper, Basal): Sands, Gravels
• Lithofacies (Middle): Silt, Clay
• Lithofacies (Middle, Basal): Gravels
• Lithofacies (Lower): Silt, Clay
• Lithofacies (Lower, Basal): Gravels
• Lithofacies (Bottom): Gravels, Clay

• Thickness (Upper): 20 - 40 m
• Thickness (Upper, Basal): 5 - 15 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Younger Sand Dune)

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

• Distribution: Hokura river, Joetsu city, Niigata pref.
• Fossils: Pollen, Diatoms

• 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.)
• Takeuchi and Kato (1994) Geology of the Takada-tobu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 67p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)
• Akahane and Kato (1989) Geology of the Takada-Seibu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 89p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)