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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Sands, Silt
• Lithofacies (Lower): Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Cross stratification

• Thickness: ca. 1.5 - 6 m

• Distribution: Fukumitsu - Miyainu, Noto city, Hosu county, Ishikawa pref.; Horyu town - Mount Yamabushiyama, Suzu city, Ishikawa pref.

• Yoshikawa et al. (2002) Geology of the Suzumisaki, Noto-iida and Horyuzan District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 76p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)