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Higher Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Mikata Gravels

• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene
• Correlation: Higher I Terrace Deposits, Higher II Terrace Deposits

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

• Thickness: ca. 5 - 10 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tamba Belt)

• Distribution: Kitada - Sata - Sasada - Lake Hirugako, 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.)