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Middle Fluvial Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (before MIS 3)
• Correlation: Iwatake stage glacial deposits

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: 5 - 100 m

• Distribution: Futamata - Happo - Nohira, Hakuba city, Kitaazumi county, Nagano pref.; Tsugaike - Maki, Otari city, Kitaazumi county, Nagano pref.; Higashikyo - Matsubara, Kinasa, Nagano city, Nagano pref.

• Nakano et al. (2002) Geology of the Shiroumadake District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 105p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)