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Higher Fluvial Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• River terrace
• Pleistocene (MIS 6?)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: 6 - 15 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Ecchu Loam)

• Distribution: Banbajima - Matsuodaira - Tsurugi Recreation Center, Kamiichi city, Nakaniikawa county, Toyama pref.; confluence of the Magawa river and the Sugodan valley, Toyama city, Toyama pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Abies sp., Picea sp., Cercidiphyllum sp.

• Harayama et al. (2000) Geology of the Tateyama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 218p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)