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Mikkabi Member

• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene
• Contemporaneous heterotopic facies: Inasa Member, Hikiuma Member, Sahama Mud Member

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies: Inner bay
• Lithofacies: Mud, Gravels

• Thickness: 20 - 30 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Mikatagahara Gravel)

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

• Distribution: Mikkabi - Nakaushi - Osaki - Makita - Noji - Sakume - Shimoona, Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka pref.; Fujie, Chibata, Kosai city, Shizuoka pref.
• Fossils: Plant roots
• Fossils (Shellfishes): Aliodes sp., Dosinia angulosa, Laternura flexuosa, Macoma tokyoensis, Paphia undulata, Rhaeta yokohamensis, Theora lubrica, Venerupis variegata
• Tephra: H-2

• 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.)