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Sagamihara Terrace Deposit (Naruse, 1952)

Invalid synonym: Sagamihara Formation, Kuzuhara Formation, Sagamino Gravel

• Type locality: Daigiri, Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Terrace deposit
• Pleistocene (0.12 - 0.06 Ma, MIS 5 - 4)

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Fill top terrace, Fill strath terrace
• Sedimentary facies: Buried valley-fill deposit
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: 6 - 30 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Musashino Loam), Unconformity (Tanahara Terrace Deposit, Nakatsuhara Terrace Deposit, Minahara Terrace Deposit, Nakatsuhara Terrace Deposit, Tanahara Terrace Deposit, Tachikawa Loam)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Sagamiko Group, Aikawa Group, Nakatsu Group, Echi Formation, Mukaihara Formation, Osawa Terrace Deposit, Shimosueyoshi Formation)

• Distribution: Daigiri, Fujisawa city, Kanagawa pref.; Sagamigawa river - Kushikawa river - Nakatsugawa river - Oginogawa river, Kanagawa pref.
• Tephra: On-Pm1, Hk-TP

• 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.)
• Mitsunashi and Kikuchi (1982) Geology of the Yokohama District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 105p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• Oka et al. (1979) Geology of the Fujisawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 111p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)