Kaibushi Member

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Kaibushi Member Otsuka, 1944

Type locality: Kaibushi, Shimizu ward, Shizuoka city, Shizuoka prefecture
Coherent formation
Trough basin-fill deposit at the collision boundary between Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc and Southwest - East Japan island arc
Back-arc basin volcanic activity at the back-arc basin of Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc
late Miocene (Foraminifera)
Correlation: Jishabatake Formation

Sedimentary facies: Marine
Lithofacies: Mudstone
Lithofacies (Minor): Sandstone

Shizuoka Formation
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Tsukiyo Member
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Oritsuki Member
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Kaibushi Member
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[ Lower ]

Fujikawa Group (Western zone)
[ Upper ]
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Shizuoka Formation
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[ Lower ]

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

Distribution: Kaibushi - Okitsugawa river, Shimizu ward, Shizuoka city, Shizuoka pref.; Tsukiyonodan, Narushima, Nanbu city, Minamikoma county, Yamanashi pref.

Sugiyama and Matsuda (2014) Geology of the Nanbu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 134p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)