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Ohorigawa Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Chiba Terrace Deposit

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Nakadai Formation

• Lithofacies: Sandy mud, Muddy sands

• Thickness: ca. 1 - 2 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Musashino Loam)

• Distribution: Ohorigawa river - Otsugawa river - Shikoda, Kashiwa city, Chiba pref.

• Nakazawa and Tanabe (2011) Geology of the Noda District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 72p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)