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Lower Terrace and Fan Deposits

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene (25 - 11 ka, ¹⁴C)

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

• Thickness: ca. 13.5 - 35 m

• Distribution: Nagatani - Nosaka - Yamashimizu - Amadani - Igawa - Takano - Shokawa river - Goigawa river, Tsuruga city, Fukui pref.; Ouragawa river - Takatokigawa river, Nagahama city, Shiga pref.
• Fossils (Pollen): Acer sp., Alnus sp., Betula sp., Castanea sp., Castanopsis sp., Cryptomeria sp., Fagus sp., Hydrangea sp., Picea sp., Pinus sp., Quercus sp., Tilia sp., Tsuga sp., Ulmus sp., Zelkova sp.

• 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.)