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Kaize Formation

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies: Scoriaceous sands, Mud

• Thickness: 11 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Inagodake Pyroclastic Flow Deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Oishigawa Scoria, Ogurayama Group)

• Distribution: Kaise - Anabara - Shimohata, Sakuho city, Minamisaku county, Nagano pref.
• Fossils: Plants

• Kawachi (1974) Geology of the Tateshinayama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 114p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)