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Lower II Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan along tributaries
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands

• Thickness: 5 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tamba Belt, Notono Formation, Kumodaniyama Granite)

• Distribution: Suganuma - Sata - Kodoji - Shinjo - Mimikawa river, Mihama city, Mikata county, Fukui pref.; Mikata, Notono, Mikatakaminaka county, Fukui pref.
• Tephra: AT

• 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.)