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Asahiyama Terrace Deposit
- Coherent formation
- Pleistocene
- Sedimentary facies: Marine
- Water temperature: Cold ocean current
- Lithofacies: Sands
- Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Sands
- Sedimentary structures (Upper): Cross stratification
- Thickness: 5 - 8 m
- Thickness (Bottom): ca. 20 cm
- Lower limit: Unconformity (Himi Formation)
- Asahiyama Terrace Deposit
- [ Upper ]
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- Main part
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- Asahiyama Shell Bed
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- [ Lower ]
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Asahiyama park, Himi city, Ishikawa pref.
- Fossils: Shellfishes
- Fossils (Foraminifera): Globigerina balconensis, Globigerina bulloides, Globigerina pachyderma
- Fossils (Boring shells): Barnea sp., Pholadidea sp.
- Imai et al. (1966) Geology of the Ochigata and Abugashima District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 67p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)