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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Deposits of Yamadagawa river
• Pleistocene

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Tuff

• Thickness: ca. 30 - 45 m

• Distribution: Ushinameri, Fuchu town, Toyama city, Toyama pref.; Shogonji, Tonami city, Toyama pref.

• Sakamoto and Nozawa (1960) Yatsuo, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 69p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)