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Takabatake Conglomerate Member Hosono

• Coherent formation
• Miocene
• Interfingered: Akaura Sandstone Member
• Correlation: Sekidosan Conglomerate Member

• Lithofacies: Conglomerate
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Coal
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sandstone

• Thickness: 450 - 500 m or thicker
• Thickness (Coal): 60 - 150 cm
• Upper limit: Interfingered (Mio Sandstone Member)
• Lower limit: Interfingered (Kakefuda Sandstone Member, Nakanami Mudstone Member, Tane Alternation Member)

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

• Distribution: Takebe - Kunogi - Kue - Mount Goishigamine, Nakanoto city, Kashima county, Ishikawa pref.; Fukumizu, Hakui city, Ishikawa pref.; Hashiri - Mukose, Hodatsushimizu city, Hakui county, Ishikawa pref.
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Chlamys sp.

• Imai et al. (1966) Geology of the Ochigata and Abugashima District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 67p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)