[ Top ] [ Japanese ]

Higher II Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: upper Mikata Gravels

• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene
• Correlation: Higher Terrace Deposits

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies (Upper): Sands, Sand-bearing silt
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: ca. 5 - 20 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Middle I Terrace Deposits, Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Higher I Terrace Deposits, Kumodaniyama Granite)

• Distribution: Fukui hospital, Kiyama, Wakasa city, Mikatakaminaka county, Fukui pref.; Kumotani - Matsuo - Mimikawa river, Mihama city, Mikata county, Fukui pref.

• Nakae et al. (2002) Geology of the Nishizu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 90p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)