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Lower Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• River Terrace
• late Pleistocene
• Correlation: Kagemori Conglomerate, Lower I Terrace Deposit

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Silt

• Thickness: several - 15 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Osato Loam)

• Distribution: Arakawa river, Shiroku - Niekawa, Chichibu city, Saitama pref.; Komorigawa river, Hara - Okubo, Ogano city, Chichibu county, Saitama pref.; Fuefuki river - Hirokawa river, Yamanashi city, Yamanashi pref.; Nakagawa river, Koshu city, Yamanashi pref.

• Hara et al. (2010) Geology of the Mitsumine District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 110p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)