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Tokishi Formation

• Type locality: Tokishi-Kannon temple, Tokishi, Mihama city, Chita county, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Higher terrace deposits
• Lithofacies: Gravels

• Thickness: ca. 3 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Morozaki Group, Tokai Group, Taketoyo Formation)

• Distribution: Tokishi-Kannon temple, Tokishi, Mihama city, Chita county, Aichi pref.

• 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.)