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Higher Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Kutsukake Formation

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Terrace deposits
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Silt, Clay

• Thickness: ca. 30 m

• Distribution: Shindono - Oura pass, Tsuruga city, Fukui pref.; Shufukuji - Kutsukake, Nishiasai, Nagahama city, Shiga pref.; Mount Norikuradake, Takashima city, Shiga pref.

• Kurimoto et al. (1999) Geology of the Tsuruga District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 73p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)