Kangatake Member

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Kangatake Member Matsuda, 1961

Type locality: Nekuma - Ishiai bridge, Fukushigawa river, Nanbu city, Minamikoma county, Yamanashi prefecture
Coherent formation
Trough basin-fill deposit at the collision boundary between Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc and Southwest - East Japan island arc
Back-arc basin volcanic activity at the back-arc basin of Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc
late Miocene - Pliocene (Calcareous nannofossils)

Sedimentary facies: Marine
Lithofacies: Conglomerate, Sandstone, Interbedded sandstone and mudstone
Lithofacies (Minor): Tuffaceous sandstone, Tuff

Thickness: ca. 0 - 1,700 m
Upper limit: Transitional, Interfingered (Ishiai Member)
Lower limit: Conformity (Nakaisshiki Member)

Hamaishidake Formation (West)
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Okuyama Member / Kawaino Member
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Hamaishidake Formation (East)
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Ishiai Member
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Kangatake Member
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(Invalid name) Hamaishidake Group
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Kawaino Formation
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Nakagochi Formation
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Utsugino Formation
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Sattatoge Formation / Murono Formation
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Kogochi Formation
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Fujikawa Group (Central zone)
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Hamaishidake Formation / Akebono Formation
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Aimata Formation
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Kuonji Formation
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Hara Formation
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------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Mount Kangatake - Moriyama - Fukushigawa river, Nanbu city, Minamikoma county, Yamanashi pref.
Fossils: Bivalves (Glycymeris totomiensis), Calcareous nannofossils

Sugiyama and Matsuda (2014) Geology of the Nanbu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 134p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)