Glacial deposits

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Glacial deposits

Coherent formation
Pleistocene (younger than MIS 3)
Correlation: Middle Fluvial Terrace Depostis

Sedimentary facies: Glacial
Lithofacies: Till
Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification

Thickness: several - 40 m
Upper limit (Iwatake stage): Unconformity (Iwatake Glaciolacustrine Deposits)

Glacial deposits
[ Upper ]
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Shiroumazawa stage
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Akakurazawa stage
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Kanayamazawa stage
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Iwatake stage
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Yoshihara stage
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Kitamatairi snowy valley, Hakuba city, Kitaazumi county, 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.)