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Lower I Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan deposit
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: ca. 5 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Loam)

• Distribution: Kugushi - Kumotani - Shinjo - Matsuya - Sasadani, Mihama city, Mikata county, Fukui pref.; Kiyama - Kitamaekawa - Notono, Wakasa city, Mikatakaminaka 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.)