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Higher Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: a few dozen m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Haruna Tuff Breccia)

• Distribution: Nurukawa river, Higashiagatsuma city, Agatsuma county, Gunma pref.

• Ota (1957) Kusatsu, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 75p. (in Japanese with English abstract 8p.)