Hijikata Mud Member

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Hijikata Mud Member

Invalid synonym: Hijikata Formation

Coherent formation
Pliocene - early Pleistocene
Correlation (Upper): Kusanagi Mud Member
Correlation (Lower): Nekoya Formation

Sedimentary facies: Marine
Sedimentary facies: Forearc basin (Sagara-Kakegawa Basin) deposit
Lithofacies: Mud
Lithofacies (Minor): Sands

Thickness: ca. 220 m

Upper Kakegawa Formation
[ Upper ]
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Aburayama Sand Member
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Hijikata Mud Member
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Nango Sand Mud Alternation Member
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Hosoya Tuffaceous Silt Member
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[ Lower ]

Kakegawa Group (Kakegawa, Shizuoka pref.)
[ Upper ]
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Soga Formation
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Upper Kakegawa Formation
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Lower Kakegawa Formation
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Kakegawa city, Shizuoka pref.
Fossils: Foraminifera (Baggina totomiensis, Globigerina sp., Lenticulina totomiensis, Plectofrondicularia totomiensis), Gymnosomata
Fossils (Shellfishes): Bathytoma lühdorfi, Dentalium yokoyamai, Limopsis tajimae, Nassaria magnifica, Trochocerithium excelsum, Turricula argenteonitens, Turris totomiensis

Makiyama and Sakamoto (1957) Mitsuke & Kakezuka, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 43p. (in Japanese with English abstract 7p.)