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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: River terrace
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt, Sands

• Thickness: several m
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Utsurogitoge pass - ake Inogaike, Tsuruga city, Fukui pref.

• Nakae et al. (2013) Geology of the Imajo and Takenami District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 110p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)