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Noma Formation (Otsuka, 1931) Kondo, 1962

• Type locality: Kaminoma, Mihama city, Chita county, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene (28,060, 24,290 yBP, ¹⁴C)

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Sedimentary facies: Middle terrace deposits
• Lithofacies (Upper): Sands
• Lithofacies (Upper, Minor): Gravels
• Lithofacies (Middle): Silt, Sandy silt
• Lithofacies (Middle, Minor): Limonite bed
• Lithofacies (Lower): Sands

• Thickness: ca. 7 - 30 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Morozaki Group, Toyooka Formation, Tokoname Formation)

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

• Distribution: Noma - Kaminoma - Okuda - Lake Aoyamaike - Lake Sugitaniike - Utoge, Mihama city, Chita county, Aichi pref.
• Fossils (Upper): Trace fossils, Feces
• Fossils (Middle): Shellfishes, Plant roots
• Fossils (Middle, Plants): Berchemia sp., Pisea sp., Pinus cf. oligolepis
• Fossils (Lower): Shellfishes, Trace fossils, Feces

• Kondo and Kimura (1987) Geology of the Morozaki District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 93p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)