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Kakizawa Gravel

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene, Last Glacial Period
• Correlation: upper Onozawa Gravel

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan
• Paleo-river system: Tagawa river
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands, Pumiceous sands

• Thickness: several m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Hata Loam)

• Distribution: Kakizawa, Shiojiri city, Nagano pref.

• Katada and Isomi (1964) Shiojiri, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 52p. (in Japanese with English abstract 10p.)