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Middle Terrace and Fan Deposits

• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Terrace deposits, Alluvial fan deposits
• Lithofacies: Breccia, Sands
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sandy silt

• Thickness (Upper): ca. 6 - 10 m
• Thickness (Lower): 2 - 3 m

• Distribution: Nosaka, Tsuruga city, Fukui pref.; Shimoyogo - Sakaguchi, Yogo, Nagahama 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.)