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Tsukude Formation (Tsukude Research Group, 1991) Ozaki and Nishioka 2008

• Type locality: Akabane pass, Takamatsu - Shiratori, Tsukude, Shinshiro city, Aichi prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Miocene
• Correlation: Motojuku Formation

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Gravels
• Paleocurrent: from North to South

• Thickness: ca. 30 - 70 m
• Upper limit: Unconformity (Lower Terrace Deposits)

• Distribution: Kurose - Tabara - Naganoyama - Takasato - Takamatsu - Shiratori - Kamogaya - Zenbu, Tsukude, Shinshiro city, Aichi pref.

• Yamasaki and Ozaki (2012) Geology of the Asuke District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 76p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)