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Middle I Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Middle Terrace Deposit

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Sedimentary structures: Imbrication
• Paleocurrent: to North, Southwest to Northeast

• Thickness: 5 - 10 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Shimosueyoshi Loam), Unconformity (Younger Loam)

• Distribution: Hitsujiyama hills - Terao - Ikota - Ogasaka pass, Chichibu city, Saitama pref.; Orihara - Kanao - Akahama, Yorii city, Osato county, Saitama pref.; Onishi, Fujioka city, Gunma pref.
• Fossils: Paleoloxodon naumanni

• Makimoto and Takeuchi (1992) Geology of the Yorii District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 136p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)