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Mikatagahara Gravel

• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation (Upper): Makinohara Gravel
• Correlation: upper Tenryugawa Gravel

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Alluvial fan
• Paleo-river system: Tenryugawa river
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands

• Thickness: 0 - 70 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Mikkabi Member, Sahama Mud Member, Hikiuma Member, Inasa Member, Chichibu Belt)

• Distribution: Shimohoritani - Mikatagahara - Hainoki, Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka pref.
• Fossils (Plants): Paliurus sp., Rosa sp. (Thorn), Sapium sebiferum, Styrax japonica, Trapa sp.,

• Isomi and Inoue (1999) Geology of the Hamamatsu District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 35p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)
• 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.)
• Saito and Isomi (1954) Akihasan, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 34p. (in Japanese with English abstract 10p.)