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Kamezaki Terrace Deposits

Invalid synonym: Fuki Formation

• Type locality: Kamezaki town, Handa city, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Fuki Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Sedimentary facies: Higher terrace deposits
• Sedimentary facies (North): River terrace
• Sedimentary facies (South): Coastal terrace
• Lithofacies: Gravels, Sands

• Thickness: a few dozen cm - 2 m or thicker
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tokai Group, Taketoyo Formation)

• Distribution: Kamezaki town, Handa city, Aichi pref.

• 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.)