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Shinden Formation Makinouchi, 1980

• Type locality: Fuki, Taketoyo city, Chiga county, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene
• Correlation: Handa Terrace Deposits

• Sedimentary facies: Middle terrace deposits
• Sedimentary facies: Wave-cut platform deposit
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Lithofacies (Minor): Clay

• Thickness: 1 - 8 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Tokoname Formation)

• Distribution: Fuki, Taketoyo city, Chiga county, Aichi pref.; Futto, Mihama city, Chita county, Aichi pref.
• Fossils: Shellfishes

• 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.)