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Kanbe Gravel Member

Invalid synonym: Higashikanbe Gravel Member

• Type locality: Higashikanbe town, Tahara city, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• middle Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Seashore, Offshore - Shoreface facing open sea
• Sedimentary facies: Bay mouth gravel spit, Gravelbar
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Sands
• Sedimentary structures: Foreset bed

• Thickness: ca. 20 m
• Upper limit: Conformity (Toshima Sand and Gravel Member)
• Lower limit: Transitional or Interfingered (Akazawa Mud Member), Unconformity (Hosoya Sand Member)

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

• Distribution: Higashikanbe town - Minamikanbe town, Tahara city, Aichi pref.; Nishihamada - Gumihara, Mutsure town, Tahara city, Aichi pref.

• Nakashima et al. (2008) Geology of the Toyohashi and Tahara District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 113p. (in Japanese with English abstract 3p.)
• Nakashima et al. (2008) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.114, no.2, pp.70-79 DOI