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Handa Terrace Deposits
Invalid synonym: Shinden Formation
- Type locality: Handa city, Aichi prefecture
- Coherent formation
- Pleistocene
- Correlation: Hekikai Formation
- Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
- Sedimentary facies (Minor): Marine
- Sedimentary facies: Middle terrace deposits
- Sedimentary facies (Inland area): River terrace
- Sedimentary facies (Coastal area): Coastal terrace
- Sedimentary facies: Valley-fill deposit, Wave-cut platform deposit
- Lithofacies: Gravels
- Lithofacies (Minor): Sands
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Kamezaki - Sakaigawa river - Akubigawa river - Godogawa river, Handa city, Aichi pref.; Shinmaiko, Chita city, Aichi pref.; Tokoname port - Kabaike - Yatagawa river - Maeyamagawa river, Tokoname city, Aichi pref.; Taketoyo city, Chita county, Aichi pref.
- Fossils: Shellfishes
- Yoshida and Ozaki (1986) Geology of the Handa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 98p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)