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Tazo Sandstone Member

• Type locality: Tazo, Kamiichi city, Nakaniikawa county, Toyama prefecture
• Coherent formation
• early Miocene

• Lithofacies (Upper): Sandstone
• Lithofacies (Lower): Conglomerate

• Thickness: ca. 10 m

• Upper limit: Unconformity (Iwaine Formation)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Futomiyama Group)

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

• Distribution: Tazo - Inamura, Kamiichi city, Nakaniikawa county, Toyama pref.

• Sumi and Nozawa (1973) Geology of the Uozu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 104p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)