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Lower I Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene - Holocene

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

• Thickness: 5 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity

• Distribution: Hinogawa river - Yaotome, Minamiechizen city, Nanjo county, Fukui pref.; Hahara, Tsuruga city, Fukui pref.
• Fossils: Taxodiaceae (Cones)

• 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.)