Goi Mudstone Member

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Goi Mudstone Member

Type locality: Goi, Fukuoka town, Takaoka city, Toyama prefecture
Coherent formation
Miocene
Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Upper Shingu Sandstone and Conglomerate Member

Sedimentary facies: Deep marine
Lithofacies: Silty mudstone
Lithofacies (Minor): Sandstone

Thickness: 0 - ca. 40 m
Upper limit: Conformity (Kono Sandstone Member)
Lower limit: Transitional (Fuchigaya Tuff)

Yatsuo Group (Mount Hodatsuan, Ishikawa pref.)
[ Upper ]
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Sengoku Mudstone Member
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Kono Sandstone Member
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Goi Mudstone Member
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Sogo Alternation of Tuffaceous Sandstone and Mudstone Member
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Lower Shingu Sandstone and Conglomerate Member
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Goi - Sogo, Fukuoka town, Takaoka city, Toyama pref.; Yoshiike - Akage - Kaminaka - Ichinoshima, Himi city, Toyama pref.; Kurisu - Isurugi - Kawai, Oyabe city, Toyama pref.
Fossils: Echinoids, Shellfishes (Portlandia sp., Solen sp.)

Sumi et al. (1989) Geology of the Isurugi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 118p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)