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Shingyo Gravel Deposits Kato et al., 1989

• Type locality: Shingyo Miasa, Omachi city, Nagano prefecture
• Coherent formation
• early Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies (a part): Mudflow?
• Lithofacies: Sandy gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt, Sands, Coal

• Thickness: 40 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Middle Tephra, Upper Tephra)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Oshio Pyroclastic Flow Deposit)

• Distribution: Shingyo Miasa, Omachi city, Nagano pref.

• Kato et al. (1989) Geology of the Omachi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 111p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)