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Kunozan Gravel Bed

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: lower Ogasa Group

• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands, Sandy silt
• Sedimentary structures: Parallel stratification, Cross stratification, Imbricate structure
• Paleocurrent: West to East, Southeast

• Thickness: 150 - 200 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Kusanagi Mud Bed), Unconformity (Oshika Gravel Bed)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Nekoya Formation)

• Distribution: Udo hills, Shizuoka city, Shizuoka pref.; Minamiyabe, Shimizu ward, Shizuoka city, Shizuoka pref.; Ago, Suruga ward, Shizuoka city, Shizuoka pref.
• Fossils: Palaeoloxodon naumanni

• Sugiyama et al. (1982) Geology of the Shizuoka District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 82p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)