Gotentoge Terrace Deposit

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Gotentoge Terrace Deposit Hatori and Juen, 1958

Synonym: Gotentoge Formation

Type locality: Goten pass, Katakura town, Hachioji city, Tokyo
Coherent formation
Higher terrace deposit
middle Pleistocene (0.6 - 0.5 Ma)

Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan sediments (Sagami river)
Lithofacies: Gravels (Quartz diorite is included.)

Thickness: 15 m
Upper limit: Unconformity (Tama I Loam)
Lower limit: Unconformity (Dedana Formation, Hirayama Formation, Inagi Formation, Sagamiko Group)

Gotentoge Terrace Deposit
[ Upper ]
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Gotentoge 3 Terrace Deposit
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Gotentoge 2 Terrace Deposit
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Gotentoge 1 Terrace Deposit
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[ Lower ]

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

Distribution: Goten pass, Katakura town, Hachioji city, Tokyo; Aihara town, Machida city, Tokyo; Mogusa, Hino city, Tokyo; Renkoji, Inagi city, Tokyo; Mount Shiroyama, Midori ward, Sagamihara city, Kanagawa pref.

Suzuki et al. (2016) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.122, no.7, pp.343-356, DOI
Ueki et al. (2013) Geology of the Hachioji District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 137p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)