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Mukaihara Formation (Juen, 1969)

• Type locality: Sagami river, Mukaihara city, Midori ward, Sagamihara city, Kanagawa prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Higher terrace deposit
• middle Pleistocene (before MIS 6)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Buried valley-fill deposit
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: 10 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Sagamihara Terrace Deposit)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kobotoke Group, Sagamiko Group, Nakatsu Group)

• Distribution: Sagami river, Mukaihara city, Midori ward, Sagamihara city, Kanagawa pref.

• 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.)