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Kuromegawa Formation (Hatori et al., 1983) Ueki and Sakai, 2007

Invalid synonym: Kuromegawa Terrace Deposit

• Type locality: Tamonjimae-iseki, Minamisawa, Higashikurume city, Tokyo
• Coherent formation
• late Pleistocene (ca. 50 ka)
• Correlation: Musashino Terrace Deposit

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

• Thickness: ca. 1 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Musashino Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Akabane Formation, Nakadai Formation)

• Distribution: Minamisawa, Higashikurume city, Tokyo; Karaborigawa river, Honcho, Musashimurayama city - Yanakubo, Higashikurume city, Tokyo; Kuromegawa river, Asaka city, Saitama pref.

• Ueki and Sakai (2007) Geology of the Ome District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 189p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)